Skulls recovered near former minister’s ancestral home

PIX: Former minister of Paschimanchal Unnayan Parshad, Susanta Ghosh and human skulls recovered near from his ancestral home.

KOLKATA: Human skulls and bones were recovered on Saturday from Mallickdanga-Daserbandh near Garbeta in West Midnapore, which is located just 500 meters away from the ancestral residence of former minister of Paschimanchal Unnayan Parshad, Susanta Ghosh. Four skeletons, 25 bones and three parts of skeletons were recovered from under the ground. Police suspect victims were killed and later buried. Police found bangle and saree and suspect one of the victim was woman. Trinamul leader Srikanta Mahato alleged CPI-M’s hired miscreants killed innocent persons and later buried their bodies under the ground. He demanded a CID investigation into the matter. However Sanatan Majhi, zonal committee secretary of CPI-M of Chandrokona Road said they will comment after getting complete information.
Three decomposed bodies of CPI-M supporters, which were buried underground at two different places in Jhargram sub-division in West Midnapore, were found on Friday.
Bodies were identified as Sukumar Parihari (35) and his nephew Toton Parihari (25). Those were found in a forest patch at Bhandarvilla in the Beliabera police station area. The Maoists had kidnapped them on 17 October, 2010 from their residence and the duo was missing since then.
NEW CID POST: The government has created an independent post of director-general of police to oversee the functioning of the CID on Friday.

Tale of two slain dons

PIX: Slain don Hubba (Shyamal Das), appartment of former smuggler Ram Lakhan Yadav.


KOLKATA: Police have arrested Ramesh Mahato in connection with the murder of Syamal Das alias Hubba, whose body was fond on Thursday. Hubba was involved in several crimes including the stealing of goods from several factories of Srirampore in Hooghly. Police have also arrested Mahato’s associate Jitedra Singh for his involvement in the murder of Hubba. Police are looking for another person named Nepu Giri.
Hubba allegedly used to fund a political party, and leaders of the party influenced police not to arrest him. Hubba now a days started promoting business and trying to detach himself from the gangsters. He also wanted to file his nomination as an independent candidate for local civic poll but his dream to become councilor was dampened by a leader of local political party as he asked Hubba to refrain from filing nomination.
Police said Hubba used to steal the scrap irons and other goods from Sri Durga Cotton Mill, JK Steel, United Vegtables, Seraikella Bindal, Bagkhal Jute mill and other factories and nobody dared to protest as he used to run a gang of mercenaries, those terrorize local people and factory officials even police also.
Police are yet to find the clues to catch the culprits, who were involved in the murder of realtor and former smuggler Ram Lakhan Yadav and two of his aides in Asansol on Thursday. The trio were killed by a 15-member motorcycle gang in front of an under-construction building barely 50 metres from the Asansol court.
Police sources said most of the dons, are suspected to be involved in the murder of Yadav and others, had close links with local political parties.
The police suspect dons involved in gang rivalry following the scrap iron business as all dons of Asansol wanted to establish his own reign in this business.

CPI-M leader’s luxury apartment ransacked after arms recovered from his pump house

Pix: CPI-M leader Tapan Ghosh(Top) and his alleged arms assembling unit(bottom)

KOLKATA: A mob stormed into the residence of CPI-M leader Tapan Ghosh and ransacked soon after an assembling unit of the guns was discovered from a pumping station owned by him Kharkushma in Garbeta of West Midnapore on Friday.
Police said a huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from the house of CPI-M leader Prabhakar Sarkar who is close to Ghosh. A large number of equipment and machines, which are used in making guns, were recovered when villagers raided Ghosh’s pumping station.
The villagers raided the house of Sarkar from where the security forces recovered 16 muskets, two 9 mm pistols and 1,000 rounds of cartridges. Police said in another raid at Angua in Keshpur, one firearm packed inside a gunny bag was recovered from an agricultural field.
A Trinamul leader alleged Ghosh is a close to CPI-M leader and former Paschimanchal Unnayan minister Susanta Ghosh. Furniture of his luxury rooms were broken by the mob.
A large contingent of police and CRPF jawans arrived at the spot and brought the situation under control.