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Sandeshkhali women said apart from excesses, they have lost right to vote:
Updated : 2 years ago IST
"It is not only restricted to physical violence, rape or sexual violence, they have even lost their right to vote. They said that they had last voted in 2011 Assembly elections," Adhikari said speaking at a press conference on Tuesday.
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Sandeshkhali: Rights panel directs WB DGP to tender report on journalist's
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice to the West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) directing him to submit a report within two weeks in a case where a journalist of a vernacular news channel was unlawfully detained by police in Sandeshkhali.
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'Wronged, distressed women will get justice': Suvendu Adhikari after visit
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Addressing an accompanying media crew on a visit to battleground Sandeshkhali on Tuesday, the Leader of the Opposition in the Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari said the people in the area expressed satisfaction with the order of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam, grantin
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"There will be light at end of tunnel": West Bengal Governor on Sandeshkha
Updated : 2 years ago IST
On a day when the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, arrived in battleground Sandeshkhali after being granted permission to do so by the Chief Justice of the Kolkata High Court, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday sounded a note of optimism saying something 'ho
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Fact-finding committee of civil society members to visit Sandeshkhali, pre
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The committee will prepare a final report and submit it to the constitutional authorities of the country
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Brinda Karat questions authorities' silence on alleged abuse of women in S
Updated : 2 years ago IST
After reaching Sandeshkhali, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday questioned the authorities' silence when women were allegedly abused at the TMC office, saying, "Why was peace not disturbed when women were repeatedly called into the TMC office and abused?"
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Bengal BJPs Suvendu Adhikari permitted to visit Sandeshkhali
Updated : 2 years ago IST
This is his third attempt to visit Sandeshkhali after the allegations against Trinamool leaders raised a political storm.
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West Bengal: Governor CV Anand Bose reaches Islampur to speak with familie
Updated : 2 years ago IST
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose arrives at Islampur Circuit House in North Dinajpur district on Tuesday to meet the family members of the four children, who died allegedly after a mound of soil caved in during drainage expansion near the India-Bangladesh border in the Chopra area.
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"We will abide by the court order": LoP Suvendu Adhikari on BJP's Sandeshk
Updated : 2 years ago IST
"Yesterday, the hearing took place for the whole day. All the options were discussed... We are leaving after receiving the court's order... We hope that we don't need to go to court for the third time. One to two senior officers called me in the morning and asked me to come (to Sandeshkhali)
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'Peace Home' opened at Raj Bhavan as temporary shelter for Sandeshkhali vi
Updated : 2 years ago IST
A 'peace home' has been opened at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata from Monday to provide temporary refuge to the victims of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.
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Anurag Singh Thakur condemns attack on media freedom in West Bengal
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur has condemned the attack on media freedom in West Bengal, where a TV journalist reporting on Sandeshkhali horrors was 'taken away' by West Bengal Police late Monday evening.
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Sandeshkhali violence: BJP steps up attack on Mamata Banerjee government,
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The situation in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali sparked a war of words between the ruling and opposition parties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleging atrocities against women there and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the BJP of fomenting trouble in the area.
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