Police have arrested a hotel supervisor in connection with the devastating fire that ripped through a hotel in the Burrabazar area of central Kolkata last week, killing 15 people and injuring several others.
According to the police, the encounter took place in the early hours of Saturday.
According to officials, five people were arrested in the case, including the mastermind, Manish.
In a significant breakthrough, an anti-narcotics team apprehended 15 foreign nationals illegally staying in Delhi, including a Bangladeshi woman, from Dwarka, the locality that lies in the southwest of the city, authorities said on Friday.
The Kolkata Police, on Thursday, arrested the owner and the manager of the hotel at Madan Mohan Burman Street in central Kolkata, where a devastating fire claimed 15 lives.
The Crime Branch team of Delhi Police in a planned operation apprehended a sharpshooter of the infamous Lawrance Bishnoi gang for his alleged involvement in extortion-related firing incidents in the national capital.
An Uzbek lady and her companion, an Indian lawyer, were arrested following a drunk driving accident. In a late-night incident that escalated into public chaos on VIP Road, Raipur, the duo — now in police custody for three days — face charges under different sections of BNS, as authorities probe deeper into the foreign national’s suspicious activities and local connections.
The Haridwar police on Friday took independent MLA Umesh Kumar in custody and lathi-charged his supporters at Laksar in Khanpur assembly constituency of Uttarakhand.
Those arrested have been identified as Robinjeet Singh alias Robin of Muradpura in Tarn Taran, Harpreet Singh alias Happy of Usman in Tarn Taran, Navjot Singh alias Nav of Kalanaur in Gurdaspur and Jagdeep Singh alias Jagga of Ghuman Kalan in Gurdaspur.
The Kerala police on Saturday arrested IC Balakrishnan, the Congress MLA from Sulthan Bathery, in connection with the abetment of a suicide case involving the death of former Wayanad DCC Treasurer N M Vijayan and his son Jijesh. He was later released on bail after the District Sessions Court at Kalpetta in Wayanad granted him anticipatory bail.
