The Assam police wants to take arrested Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen for investigations in cases against him in that state.

In what may add to the embarrassment to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, non-bailable charges have been pressed against Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh. A group of 21 employees of Channel 10 which Mr Ghosh headed and rose to become its chief executive officer had filed an FIR against him at the Park Street police station late Thursday night.

In what may add to the embarrassment of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, non-bailable charges have been filed against Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh. A group of 21 employees of Channel 10, which Mr Ghosh headed as CEO, filed an FIR against him at the Park Street police station late Thursday night.

One of the absconding directors of the Saradha Group was arrested, immovable properties of the company have been attached and some of its bank accounts have been frozen.

A girl-trafficking racket was busted in West Bengal by the South 24-Parganas police on Friday. Four members, including a woman, of the gang which trafficked minor girls from Basanti, Canning, Sonarpur and adjoining areas of the district to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were arrested.

The infighting within the Trinamul Congress came to light once again on Wednesday with rebel party MLA of Sealdah Shikha Mitra launching a scathing attack against Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee claiming that she had drew his attention to the fire hazards at the market building which falls in her Assembly constituency.

At least 19 people, including an 80-year-old woman, were killed and several others sustained burn injuries as a massive fire gutted Surya Sen Market at Sealdah in central Kolkata in the early hours Wednesday. The toll is likely to rise further. This blaze comes just over a year after the AMRI catastrophe in December 2011, in which 93 people were killed.

A girl was raped by a youth at Dankuni in Hooghly while two other girls were molested in Birbhum and North 24 Parganas on Sunday evening.

The bad days of state urban development minister Firhad Hakim are yet to be over even though chief minister Mamata Banerjee has clipped his wings.

After the threat to “whip”, it was the turn for “slap”. Losing her cool again, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee threatened to “slap” the media. Her latest outburst came during her visit to Mati Utsav at Panagarh in Burdwan on Saturday afternoon.