Ganjimata Sameer murder Case: Wife, her lover held?
Mangaluru, Oct 07: In related to the murder of Ganjimata Sameer, Bengaluru-Tamil Nadu border place Hosur police have arrested Firdous, wife of Sameer, and her lover, it is said.
Tamil Nadu Devathanapatti police, with the help of local police, have been investigating in the district for the last few days. At this time, the police have arrested a youth and interrogated him. Based in his information, the police have arrested Firdous and her lover Asif of Marjala on Sunday, sources said.
On September 13, Sameer had left to Bengaluru with his wife and three months old daughter by flight from Mangaluru. On September 15, Sameer had called his mother and said they were in Bengaluru. After that Sameer was not reachable. But knowing that Firdous had come to her mother's house at Majur near Kaup on September 18, Sameer family members had gone to Majur and enquired about Sameer. But Firdous said that as he was in love with another girl, he had left them at Majur and left. Later Sameer father Ahmed Saheb lodged a complaint at Bajpe police station. But Sameer was not traced. On September 16, a body was found in the hilly region of Devathanapatti police station limits near Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu. After waiting for the family members, they buried the body.
Getting information about unknown body, the family members of Sameer had gone to Devathanapatti and identified the body based on the belongings. As Sameer was strangled and burnt the face with acid, they suspected that it was a murder and lodged a complaint. Meanwhile, Firdous father had lodged a complaint that his daughter was missing. At the same time, Asif who was working as a driver in Bengaluru was also missing. There was a rumour that both Firdous and Asif had gone abroad. But now, based on the information given by a local youth, the police arrested both Firdous and Asif and interrogated, sources said.
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Teachers start relay hunger strike to protest job loss, police action
Kolkata (PTI): A section of teachers who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment which held that the whole appointment process was tainted, on Thursday began a relay hunger strike outside the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) office in protest over the issue.
Joining the protesters, BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay who is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, blamed the state administration and its wings for their plight.
The teachers and other staff who lost their jobs said that they were also protesting police action against their compatriots at the district inspector (DI) of schools' office at Kasba in south Kolkata on Wednesday.
"We started a relay hunger strike agitation with one teacher at the beginning and will soon chalk out further programme to protest the issue," one of the protesters told reporters outside the SSC office at Salt Lake here.
The agitating teachers have been holding a sit-in outside the SSC office building 'Acharya Sadan' since Wednesday night to protest the loss of jobs and police action against their compatriots.
The protesters alleged they were subjected to baton-charge and were even kicked and shoved around by law enforcement personnel during their agitation outside the DI office, situated beside Kasba police station of the Kolkata Police.
Noting that the police have lodged cases against the protesting teachers over Wednesday's protest at Kasba, Gangopadhyay said that this should not have been done.
"Cases have been lodged against innocent teachers who lost their jobs for the illegal acts of others," the BJP MP told reporters.
Maintaining that he had not gone to meet Education Minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday in protest against the police action, he said that the BJP leadership was with him in his decision.
Gangopadhyay said that he, along with former Rajya Sabha MP Rupa Ganguly, came to the protest site at Acharya Sadan to express solidarity with the teachers and other staff who lost their jobs.
Gangopadhyay, as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, had ordered a CBI investigation in November 2021 into alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.
He had also ordered the termination of more than 25,000 jobs of teaching and non-teaching staff in West Bengal government-run and -aided schools after finding irregularities in the process.
This order was upheld by a division bench of the high court and thereafter by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on April 3 upheld a 2024 Calcutta High Court judgment annulling the recruitment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff appointed through a recruitment drive by SSC in 2016, terming the entire selection process "vitiated and tainted".
Those who were rendered jobless claimed that the reason behind their plight was the inability of the SSC to differentiate between the candidates who secured employment through fraudulent means and those who did not.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and some others, who held positions in the state's SSC when the irregularities in the recruitment process took place.
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