Tensions flared in West Bengal's Maheshtala on Tuesday night after a violent clash between two groups led to the alleged vandalism of a Shiva temple,

Woman’s husband lodges complaint with Maheshtala police station, on the south-western fringes of Calcutta, he also writes to the state medical council

Five police officers were injured in the violence in Maheshtala on Wednesday.

Tensions flared in West Bengal's Maheshtala on Tuesday night after a violent clash between two groups led to the alleged vandalism of a Shiva temple,

The violence, which erupted over the setting up of a shop in Maheshtala under Rabindranagar police station in South 24 Parganas district, quickly escalated, turning the area into a virtual battlefield.

Kolkata, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pandemonium broke out in the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday after Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay refused to admit two adjournment motions, moved by opposition BJP, seeking discussions on the communal violence in Murshidabad in April and the clashes in the Maheshtala area in South 24 Parganas district. As the members of the BJP’s legislative team moved the two adjournment motions soon after the House began, the Speaker refused to admit them on the grounds that both matters were sub judice and hence could not be taken up for discussion.

Kolkata, June 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tension prevailed in the Maheshtala area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, as police crackdown on protesters continued on Thursday. So far, 18 have been arrested. The arrests were made during a joint operation by the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, which started on Wednesday night and continued till Thursday morning in connection with the clashes that broke out on Wednesday afternoon.

A police officer said that bricks were hurled from rooftops, tyres were set ablaze on the roads, and miscreants torched a motorbike in front of the police station.

KOLKATA: Five policemen, including DC (Port) Harikrishna Pai , were injured and two govt vehicles were damaged and a bike was set ablaze when cops tried to stop clashes in the Rabindranagar-Akra near Maheshtala on Wednesday. Police resorted to lathicharge and fired tear gas to rein in the situation. Till the last report came in, police continued raids and rounded up four persons.

A pregnant 27-year-old Muslim woman, alleged that a gynaecologist in Maheshtala, Kolkata, refused to treat her due to her religious identity.

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Kolkata, Jan 18 (LatestNewsX) In a horrific incident, the bodies of a man and his wife were recovered from a flat in Maheshtala of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal on Sunday. According to the police, the incident occurred in ​​Ward No. 15 of Maheshtala Municipality near Kolkata. Police arrived and broke open the door to enter the flat. The bodies of Tanmoy Dey (52) and his wife, Ruma Rakshit (47), were recovered.

In Kolkata, opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari slammed the West Bengal Police on Sunday for blocking a peaceful rally by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The event marked the RSS's 100 years of national service, and Adhikari called the police action outright tyranny. Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, vented his anger in a statement. He described the police as "puppets of the despotic TMC regime" under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.