The last judicial hanging in West Bengal took place two decades ago when Dhananjay Chatterjee, a security guard at a ...

Judges ruled these cases were ‘rarest of rare’ for the savage nature of the rapes and murders perpetrated on girls.

While the last judicial execution in West Bengal for the rape and murder of a minor in Kolkata took place over two decades ...

Just as the Bengal Biennale was wrapping up this January, I went to see the art installation at the Alipore Jail museum, the famous red-brick Kolkata jail now turned into a museum. There was a ...

Kolkata: Members of Directors Association of Eastern India (DAEI) have decided to give one day's time to Federation of Cine ...

He has been forwarded to Alipore Court today and sent to a day’s judicial custody and will be produced before the POCSO Court tomorrow. Kolkata Police ... lodged in Tihar Jail after being ...

He was then finishing high school at City College, Calcutta (now Kolkata). A few months later ... The arrested young men would be lodged in Alipore Central Jail and tried at the Alipore Sessions ...

Soumitra Roy, a toto driver in Kolkata, has been arrested for the murder and rape of a class VIII girl. Known for his violent ...

Sanjay Roy, convicted of raping and murdering an on-duty doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been sentenced to life in jail. During the pronouncement of the sentence at a ...