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The City Diary

Stumped sleuths issue SOS

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday issued an appeal seeking information about Manish Agarwal, the CA final-year student found murdered off EM Bypass on February 28. Sleuths working on the case admitted that they had not got any lead so far to ascertain the reason behind the murder or clues to track down the killers. Agarwal went missing on February 21 after leaving a private firm’s office on Shakespeare Sarani. His decomposed body was found seven days later. The post-mortem report confirmed that Agarwal was strangled, but there were other injury marks on his body. The CID will not disclose the identity of the person who will pass on information and he or she will be awarded if the information helps police crack the case. Three telephone numbers — 9433352094, 9903208100 and 9432273951 — will be open for the callers.

Constable beaten up

A constable of the South Traffic Guard, Uday Burman, was beaten up by a group of contractor’s labourers near the north gate of Victoria Memorial Hall around 7am on Tuesday. According to police, a truck carrying the labourers had speeded out of the Victoria Memorial premises and hit a guard rail maintained by the traffic police. Burman, who functions as a signal operator on the spot, had protested and was beaten up with sticks. He received 12 stitches in the head. The truck sped off, hitting a Maruti van and a motorcycle, but was later intercepted by the police. Though the labourers managed to flee, driver Nathni Mahato, 50, was arrested and the vehicle impounded.

Flier off-loaded

A Philippines national, Bajamundi Rodolfo Ayacocho, 58, was off-loaded from a Singapore Airlines flight at Calcutta airport late on Monday after his passport went missing. Rodolfo was on his way from Calcutta to Manila via Singapore. Airport officials said he had produced his passport at the airline check-in counter and also cleared immigration, customs and security check. However, when he was boarding the flight, it was found that his passport was missing. He was off-loaded and is scheduled to leave in a day or two, after getting a duplicate passport from his country’s emabassy.

Flagpole suicide

Biswanath Swarnakar, 80, committed suicide by hanging himself from a flagpole at Shahid Bedi, on Girish Ghosh Avenue. According to police, he was a bachelor and mentally depressed. The body was discovered early on Tuesday. Swarnakar had used a towel to hang himself. The body has been sent for post mortem.

Buddha statue

An old wooden statue of Gautama Buddha was recovered from a pond being dredged at Gobindapur, in Sonarpur, on Tuesday. Some ancient relics were also found in the pond.

Felicitation

The state winners of the RANK (Race for Awareness and Knowledge, for students) and BOLT (Broad-Outlook-Learner Teacher, for teachers) awards instituted by Air India were felicitated in a ceremony held in Rotary Sadan on Monday. While RANK state awardee Pritam Choudhary of Balurghat High School, Dakshin Dinajpur, could not be present, BOLT state awardee Tapan Kumar Jana of Asadtala Binode Vidyapith, East Midnapore, accepted his trophy.

Thumbs Up

TO LC 46 for taking 50 underprivileged children of Naboneer shopping for shoes and socks