KOLKATA: Three members of a Bihar-based Munna Singh gang were arrested from Nalanda in connection with an attempt to murder case at Bentick Street on March 27. Those held were identified as Tanvir Khan, Debgan Kumar and Ajay Kumar. A team of the detective department's
anti-rowdy squad brought the three accused to Kolkata and produced them in a city court.
They were remanded in police custody for 14 days. Police said on the night of March 27, three armed men raided a premises on Bentinck Street where Abdul Kalam, a porter was sleeping. They were looking for tenant Ahmed Reza. But Reza was not present, they shot at Kalam. Probe revealed that the owner of the premises, Jharkhand-based company Chhoturam and Hariram Private Limited, had handed over the property to a Howrah-based promoting agency but they could not get possession as Reza and his brother Saukat Parvez Reza refused to leave the premises.
Lathe machine labourer killed: A labourer at a lathe factory in Bantra's Bhagaban Chatterjee Lane was killed instantly when he was "sucked" in by the lathe machine on which he was working. The mangled body of Subrata Maity, 20, was retrieved and taken to the Howrah General Hospital for postmortem. Police said Maity's shirt got caught in the machine he got pulled into the machine, right infront of the eyes of other labourers. The deceased was a resident of Bagnan.