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Man slits his throat with kitchen knife
Abhijit Das, 40, slit his own throat with a kitchen knife on Saturday afternoon at his Harish Mukherjee Road residence, in the Kalighat police station area. According to Anuj Sharma, deputy commissioner of police (south), Das was a bachelor and had been suffering from depression for quite some time. His body was retrieved from the bathroom and sent for post-mortem.
Drunk youth wreaks havoc
The security guard of an automated teller machine (ATM) counter of Federal Bank on Rowland Row, in the Ballygunge police station area, suffered head injuries when a drunk youth hurled a brick at him after a brief altercation. Police said another brick tossed by the youth brought the front glass panel of the ATM counter crashing down.
Debt drove theft
Pinky Ghosh, the 22 year-old arrested on Saturday on charges of stealing valuables from homes she visited as a private tutor, was produced at Barrackpore sub-divisional court on Sunday and remanded in police custody for seven days.
f the 150 g of gold Pinky had stolen from the house of timber trader S.P. Pande, police recovered 50 g. Another Rs 5,000 she got from selling the stolen jewellery was also recovered.
aghunath Dhar and Swapan Saha, two shop-owners who bought the ornaments from her, were arrested for buying stolen jewellery. “According to the jewellers, Pinky told them the ornaments were hers. She said she needed money to continue her education, since her father had retired, and she had to marry off a sister,” police said. Pinky’s father had run up debts with money-lenders, who were harassing him. Pinky would clear off the debts with the jewellery she stole, police added.
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