Kolkata, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former cricketer and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad on Tuesday appeared before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Kolkata for questioning in connection with an extortion case registered against him. Azad, a member of the Indian team that won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, and now the MP from Bardhaman-Durgapur, arrived at the CID headquarters at Bhabani Bhavan in south Kolkata armed with interim protection from coercive action, including arrest, granted by the Calcutta High Court on September 15. The relief was provided by Justice Kaushik Chanda while directing the MP to cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation.

Kolkata, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal government on Thursday entrusted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe and submit a report on the encounter killing of Pravas Mondal, one of the four persons accused in the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district. At the same time, an insider from the state secretariat of Nabanna said that a judicial probe as per norms has already been initiated into the matter, which will continue. Mandal was killed in a police encounter early Wednesday morning after he tried to escape by snatching the firearm of an escorting cop.

Kolkata, June 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Armed with an order passed by a district court in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, earlier this week, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has served a notice on the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to collect his voice samples in relation to the case in which he has been accused of inciting violence and threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah before the recently concluded Assembly polls. An official from the CID of the state police personally arrived at the residence of Abhishek, also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at Kalighat Road in South Kolkata, on Wednesday night and served the notice, an insider from the state police said.

Kolkata, June 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, had arrived at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday to face questioning in connection with the legislators' signature mismatch case. Earlier in the day, a single-judge vacation bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda had directed Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to appear at the CID's office by 6 p.m. and face the questioning in the matter. The bench said that since Abhishek Banerjee has already dodged summons in the matter thrice, repeat of the same action would not be tolerated anymore and he would have to appear at the CID office and face questioning by 6 p.m.

Kolkata, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police, on Thursday morning, took over the probe of the ghastly murder of Chandranath Rath, the long-time personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari, who was shot dead by a bike-borne man. Initial investigation revealed that while Rath was returning home on Wednesday night from a programme of the BJP, his vehicle was followed by a motorcycle with the killer as the driver. Just as Rath’s vehicle reached Doharia crossing at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district, another four-wheeler blocked the path of Rath’s vehicle.