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Army probe seeks witness version
A three-member army team will talk to Rupam Mazumdar, who had witnessed the vandalism by a group of army officers at Park Street police station on December 31 night. Colonel M.C. Baruah, heading the team probing the New Year’s Eve incident, said the youth has been requested to meet the officers in Barrackpore on Saturday.
Officers of the detective department have traced the woman with whom two army officers had allegedly misbehaved at a five-star hotel on New Year’s Eve.
Two held for burglary
Narendra Biswal and Krishna Rao were arrested on Friday in connection with a burglary in a house rented out to an Australian couple in the Park Street police station area. The couple, who had left for Goa on December 20, returned on Wednesday and found that the house had been broken in. A leather bag containing 8,000 Australian dollars was missing. An officer said a gang of four had burgled the house on December 31.
Child run over
Ria Das, 8, died after being run over by a truck in Bishnupur, on the city’s southern fringes, on Friday. Police said Ria was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The driver fled with the vehicle.
Foundation stone
Union urban development minister S. Jaipal Reddy will lay the foundation of the Rs 39-crore, three-million gallon capacity booster pumping station in Thakurpukur on January 11. The chief minister will attend the programme.
Ray house
The high court on Friday disposed of a petition relating to Satyajit Ray’s ancestral house on Garpar Road, in north Calcutta, following an assurance by the state that it would maintain the building as a heritage structure. Chief Justice V.S. Sirpurkar had moved the case after hearing that the building was not being properly maintained by the state.
Airport arrest
Asif Iqbal, 23, was arrested at Calcutta airport on charges of illegally carrying foreign currency worth Rs 4.5 lakh. Iqbal, a resident of Kamarhati, was arrested by customs officials while he was about to board a Bangkok-bound flight.
Thumbs Up
To CMLC 65 and round table 41 BANK for organising an audio-described movie for visually-challenged children
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