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The City Diary

Disease probe

The civic health department has requested the health department to confirm whether Proloy Chowdhury of Thakurpukur died of Japanese Encephalitis. Chief municipal health officer DebDwaipayan Chattopadhyay said he doubted that the disease had returned to the city.

Suicide

Twenty-year-old Udaybhan Giri was found hanging from the ceiling of a staff quarters at Salt Lake stadium on Tuesday morning. His father Gurucharan is a guard there. Police said Udaybhan may have committed suicide after failing to find employment. He had come to Calcutta from Bihar before the pujas.

Gangster held

Manojit Saha, 24, was arrested from the Lake Town-VIP Road crossing late on Monday with 2 kg ganja and a country-made firearm on him. Police said Saha was an associate of gangster Haatkata Dilip.

Flights

Air India’s Calcutta-London flight will be temporarily withdrawn from October 26, an AI spokesperson said on Tuesday. The flight is likely to resume after a month. The spokesperson also said that AI passengers taking a connecting flight from Calcutta to New Delhi to fly the Delhi-New York sector can check in for both flights at Calcutta airport itself.

Track death

Gurudas Sarkar, 65, committed suicide by jumping in front of a Sealdah-bound train at Dhakuria railway station on Tuesday afternoon. Police said he was mentally unstable.

Ticket haul

Fake railway tickets worth Rs 99,287 were confiscated and the proprietor of a travel agency — New Siraj Travel Services — was arrested after officers of Eastern Railway conducted a surprise raid late on Monday at Pilkhana, in Howrah.

Mishap

Two persons were critically injured on Monday night when a private bus on route No. 46 collided with an Ambassador at the Ultadanga crossing, police said.

Body found

Moon Moon Ghosh, 50, a resident of Howrah, was found dead on Tuesday morning in her room. Cops suspect that she starved to death since she lived alone and had no income.