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Easier payment of property tax
House owners in Calcutta can pay property tax in any of the 15 civic treasury offices from Wednesday. Till now, the tax could only be deposited in the treasury office in the area where the house is located.
unicipal commissioner Alapan Bandyopadhyay said e-connectivity between the offices has made the tax payment possible at any location. According to him, whenever a civic employee logs into the network, his username and password will be recorded in the central server at the civic headquarters. This is part of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s e-governance project, funded by the British government’s Department for International Development.
Bail blow to mother
The bail petition of Sutapa Bag, arrested in April last year for allegedly killing her nine-year-old daughter Tiyasha, was rejected on Tuesday by a high court division bench, headed by Justice A.K. Talukdar. The bodies of Sutapa’s husband Jayanta, a quack, and Tiyasha were found in their home in Jagachha, Howrah.
Body mix-up
Post-mortem was carried out on a body that MR Bangur Hospital authorities said was of Subrata Bhattacharya, 45. The trader hanged himself at his Netaji Nagar home on Saturday night. He was brought to the hospital on Sunday where he was declared dead. His relatives refused to accept the body that was handed over to them, saying it was not Subrata’s. The relatives also did not accept the post-mortem report. “The body will be sent for a DNA test,” said Praveen Kumar, the district superintendent of police (South 24-Parganas).
Rickshaw licence
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s appeal against a trial court’s order asking it to renew licences of hand-pulled rickshaws was admitted on Tuesday by the division bench headed by Justice P.K. Roy. The trial court’s order had restrained the state government from implementing its decision to ban hand-pulled rickshaws.
Demolition
Illegally constructed parts of a building at 24 Bagmari Road were demolished by officials of the civic building department on Tuesday. Director general (building) Gora Chand Mondol said a G+4 building had been sanctioned but the owner had added an extra floor and illegally converted the garage space for other use.
Shop fire
A goldsmith was injured in a fire that broke out around 3.20pm on Tuesday in a BB Ganguly Street ornament shop. Two tenders brought the blaze under control. Pintu Das, the goldsmith, suffered burns on his right leg. A short-circuit caused the fire, he said.
Five injured
Five youths were injured when two groups clashed in Chetla for an hour on Monday evening over parking of trucks. Joy Krishna Yadav, 50, and Anil Sharma, 42, were arrested in this connection.
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