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SITALKUCHI KILLINGS
West Bengal Poll violence concerns dominate voters' psyche at Dinhata, Sitalkuchi assembly seatsAn eerie unease grips Cooch Behar's Dinhata and Sitalkuchi constituencies as elections approach. A history of political violence between TM...
Sitalkuchi probe: Local court summons six Central Industrial Security Force personnel on November 16The Court has asked the six CISF personnel to give attendance in the court on November 16 as they failed to respond to the CID summons. The...
Bengal CID, forensics teams in Sitalkuchi to probe CISF firingThe forensic team visited the school building, which was converted into a polling booth and the adjacent grounds, along with the CID offici...
Bengal police fear Trinamool cadre: GovernorAround 400 people from north Bengal had fled to Assam after the May 2 assembly poll results in Dhubri and were staying in a relief camp ope...
Bengal Guv's plan to visit violence-hit areas triggers row with state govtWest Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s planned visit to Sitalkuchi and other places in Coochbehar district on Thursday to take an overview...
Sitalkuchi killings: CISF personnel fail to turn up for CID questioningThe six CISF personnel, including two officers, were on duty at polling booth number 126 in Jorpatki in Sitalkuchi assembly constituency in...
CID takes over probe in Cooch Behar CISF firing that killed 4Investigators will visit booth number 126/5 in Jorpatki in Sitalkuchi assembly constituency where CISF personnel had opened fire after they...
24-hour campaign ban on BJP's Dilip Ghosh over his Sitalkuchi remarksHe was served a show-cause notice by the ECI for prima facie violation of the model code of conduct and provisions of the Representation of...
Will punish those behind Sitalkuchi killing: MamataFour people were killed when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel opened fire in “self-defence”, allegedly after coming under...
EC notice to West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh for 'there will be Sitalkuchi in several places' remarksThe notice cited Ghosh's alleged remarks that "if someone crosses his limits then you have seen what happened in Sitalkuchi. There will be ...
Bengal political cauldron on boil over Cooch Behar killings; PM, Mamata sparA day after Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh courted controversy with his warning of more Cooch Behar-like killings, another senior party leade...
No video of Cooch Behar episode, EC's clean chit to CISF based on hypothetical reports: Biman BoseFour persons were killed and as many injured on Saturday in Sitalkuchi area of Cooch Behar when CISF personnel opened fire outside a pollin...
Those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned politically: Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch B...
Once BJP comes to power, political and poll-related violence will end in Bengal: Amit ShahCentral Forces opened fire to stop a mob in which four persons were killed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also expressed his sadness over th...
EC trying to suppress facts by barring entry of politicians in Cooch Behar: Mamata calls the killings genocide"There was genocide at Sitalkuchi. I would like to visit Sitalkuchi by April 14. The EC is trying to suppress facts by restricting entry in...
Mamata's advice to gherao central forces instigated people to attack CISF in Sitalkuchi: Amit Shah"Mamata Banerjee had advised people to gherao central forces. Is that not responsible for the deaths in Sitalkuchi? Her advice had instigat...
EC orders adjournment of polls at polling station no. 126 in West Bengal's SitalkuchiA spokesperson of the poll panel said the decision was based on an interim report filed by special observers. Detailed reports have been so...
Mamata asks for Union Home Minister's resignation over central forces firing killing 4 during pollingAppealing to people to remain calm, Banerjee alleged that central policemen shot dead people standing in a queue to vote and demanded "Shah...
Mamata Banerjee appeals for calm, alleges CRPF opened fire on voters in SitalkuchiClaiming she had long apprehended such a situation after watching the "high handedness" of central forces for long, Banerjee said "after ki...
West Bengal polls: First-time voter shot dead outside polling boothThe youth, identified as Anand Burman, was dragged outside polling booth number 85 in Pathantuli area of Sitalkuchi while voting was underw...