Bengal blast: Police registers case against unknown persons
Kolkata, Oct 3: A suo-motu case has been registered against unknown persons in Tuesday's bomb blast in West Bengal's Dumdum area, that killed an eight-year-old boy and injured nine others, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
"In the Dumdum explosion, we registered a case against unknown persons on charges of murder, conspiracy and under various sections of the Arms Act. No one has been arrested or detained so far," Barrackpore Police Commissioner Rajesh Kumar Singh told IANS.
"We are checking the CCTV footages and speaking to the people in the neighbourhood. It's an ongoing probe," he said.
The officer said the remnants of the bomb and splinters recovered from the spot, have been sent for forensic tests to ascertain what type of explosives were used in the blast.
An explosion took place in front of a multi-storied building in the Dumdum's Nagerbazar area in North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday morning that ripped through adjacent shops, shattered window panes of nearby houses and damaged the pedestrian walk, besides killing a boy.
Police later revealed it was low-intensity socket bomb might have been used. Parts of the bomb ricocheted off the concrete floor and hit a terrace causing the impact of the blast to be double.
Bibhash Gosh who was injured in the blast, died at a state-run hospital later in the day while nine other including the deceased's mother remain hospitalised.
Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party traded charges against each other for the blast.
While Trinamool claimed that the blast was masterminded by activists of the BJP-RSS to kill the chairman of south Dumdum municipality Panchu Roy, the BJP termed it to be a fallout of the ruling party's internal problems in the area.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
