As many as 17 small houses were gutted in a devastating fire late on Friday night that continued till Saturday morning at Nimtala in North Kolkata.

Kolkata, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against former West Bengal Minister Sujit Bose and his son Samudra Bose in a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata in connection with the ongoing probe into the multi-crore municipalities job case. The chargesheet also names Jyotishman Chattopadhyay, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and two corporate entities linked to the minister and his son. During the peak period of the municipalities’ job case, Chattopadhyay had served in an important position in the West Bengal Directorate of Local Bodies and the state Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Department, with the current Trinamool Congress legislator, Firhad Hakim, as the then minister in charge of the department.

Kolkata, May 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sujit Bose, former minister in the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Mamata Banerjee-led cabinet, was arrested by the officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday night in connection with the multi-crore municipalities’ job case in West Bengal during the previous regime. Bose appeared at the ED’s Salt Lake office on the northern outskirts of Kolkata earlier in the day for questioning in the matter, and after a marathon investigation for almost 11 hours, he was finally arrested by the central investigation agency sleuths. He was defeated this time from his native Bidhannagar Assembly constituency in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls.