Tapan Dutta

Calcutta High Court on Monday directed that the CBI be made party to the Tapan Dutta murder case. Dutta, a Trinamool Congress leader and environmentalist from Bally, was gunned down in May 2011.

A 35-year-old Congress worker, Tapan Dutta, was gunned down late on Saturday inside a central Kolkata office of the...

The widow of slain Trinamool Congress leader and activist Tapan Dutta was arrested on Saturday on complaints that had been filed by her business rivals nearly five months ago.

The West Bengal Congress on Saturday backed slain activist Tapan Dutta's widow Pratima's demand for a CBI inquiry into his death and said they would inform the Union home ministry of threats to his family.

CBI on Monday lodged an FIR in the murder case of Trinamool Congress leader Tapan Dutta, following a Calcutta High Court order. Dutta, an environmentalist and politician from Bally, was gunned down while returning home in May 2011.

Calcutta High Court on Monday directed that the CBI be made party to the Tapan Dutta murder case. Dutta, a Trinamool Congress leader and environmentalist from Bally, was gunned down in May 2011.

Calcutta high court on Tuesday directed the government to file an affidavit on the investigation into the murder of environmental activist Tapan Dutta in May last year.

Former Howrah Trinamool Congress secretary Sasthi Gayen and his brother Asit Gayen have been arrested by the CID on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the murder of Domjur's local Trinamool leader and environment activist Tapan Dutta.

Pratima Dutta, widow of Trinamool Congress leader Tapan Dutta, called on state environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar on Tuesday at Writers' Buildings seeking intervention in the probe into the murder of her husband last month in Howrah's Domjur.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday handed over the Tapan Dutta murder case to CBI — 11 years after the Trinamool Congress leader was gunned down while driving home. The incident took place on May 6, 2011.The case has now reached a trial stage.

Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed the two appeal petitions challenging the single bench order of a CBI investigation into the Tapan Dutta murder case.

Police suspect the hand of the land mafia behind the murder of Howrah Trinamool Congress activist Tapan Dutta in Bally`s Ghoshpara on Friday night. Tapan Dutta`s family members agree with this as well.

State environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar visited slain environment activist and Trinamool leader Tapan Dutta's residence at Bally on Thursday evening and spoke to the bereaved family.

When the CID has failed miserably in nailing the murderers of Howrah environment activist Tapan Dutta, why shouldn’t another agency like CBI be asked to probe it all over again? This question was raised by Justice Dipankar Datta of Calcutta high court on Friday in response to a petition from Dutta’s widow Pratima.

A Trinamool leader and local worker were shot in Howrah, bearing a striking resemblance to the 2011 murder of green crusader Tapan Dutta. The injured, Debabrata Mondal and Anupam Rana, are in critical condition. Mondal was a former follower of Dutta, later accused in his murder case.

Three years after five persons accused in the murder of green activist Tapan Dutta were acquitted, the Calcutta high court on Monday directed a Howrah trial court to start proceedings afresh in the case.

A little over a decade ago, a large expanse of wetlands lay alongside the Bali-Chamrail Road west of Jaypur crossing in Howrah district. Now, this stretch of land is unrecognisable, as the wetlands are slowly disappearing to make way for urban construction.

JAMSHEDPUR: The phone has not stopped ringing at the house of Tapan Dutta, an LIC officer, ever since his daughter Tanushree was crowned Pond's Femina Miss India-Universe on Saturday.

Three women tourists from West Bengal's Hooghly district were injured after falling off an elephant they were riding inside Kaziranga National Park on Monday.

A Howrah trial court on Saturday acquitted five accused in the 2011 murder of Trinamool Congress leader Tapan Dutta, noting that the CID investigation had failed to turn up any evidence against them. The victim’s family has already moved Calcutta high court for a CBI probe.

In a chilling reminder of activist and Trinamool Congress leader Tapan Dutta's murder in May last year, assailants on Thursday evening attacked his nephew Pintu Dhar with choppers - barely 10 metre from where his uncle was murdered.

Pratima Dutta had to return from Writers' Buildings every time she tried to meet law minister Moloy Ghatak or industries minister Partha Chatterjee.

The Left-Congress alliance on Sunday extended its support to two candidates - Ambikesh Mahapatra and Pratima Dutta - from the civil society platform 'Akranta Amra'.

Kalyan Banerjee and Sandip Ganguly, two CID homicide wing officers investigating the murder of environmental activist Tapan Dutta, have been transferred.

Hooghly don Hubba Shyamal's murder was pre-planned, believe police after questioning some local criminals.

The state environment department on Monday asked East Midnapore superintendent of police K Jayraman to take stern action against those who murdered primary school teacher Monmohan Kuiti for protesting against the use of loudspeakers beyond permissible time.

Two school students in Howrah, were beaten up by neighbours and then arrested on charges of teasing young girls for the last few days.