Suspended TMC MP feels victimised
Kolkata: Alleging there were attempts to restrict investigation in the Saradha Group chit fund scam, suspended Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh, facing repeated police grilling, on Saturday said he is being victimised by the West Bengal Government. “The Saradha issue is a larger issue and not confined only to the media unit. There are many other larger dimensions to the whole scandal... then why it is being confined just only to the media unit,” said Ghosh after his seventh round of grilling by the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, which is probing the scandal.
Peace returns to AP town, curfew lifted
Visakhapatnam: Curfew was on Saturday lifted from adjoining Vizianagaram town, which saw violence early this month during agitation against proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, as normalcy returned there. The curfew was lifted from the town in the view of improvement in situation and to provide relief to the people, Deputy IGP (Visakhapatnam region) P Umapathi said.
Trader shot dead in Muzaffarnagar
Muzaffarnagar: A 38-year-old trader was allegedly shot dead by an armed man at his shop at Chapar village, the police said on Saturday. Rajive Tyagi was gunned down at his business establishment on Friday by a sharp shooter belonging to the notorious Balram Gang, the police said.