Minor ‘raped’

Bolpur, Aug. 10: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by a stranger in Birbhum yesterday.

The girl said the man gagged her with a cloth when she was going to bathe in a village pond and raped her.

Electrocuted

Behrampore: Three contract labourers were electrocuted and four others received burn injuries after coming in contact with a live overhead wire in Murshidabad’s Raninagar on Friday.

Land protest

Durgapur: Trinamul leaders on Friday led an agitation of landlosers demanding better compensation for a plot near Durgapur on which a hospital and a forensic laboratory is scheduled to come up.

Assault cuffs

Dubrajpur: The son of a CPM district secretary and three party workers were arrested for allegedly assaulting the officer in charge of a Birbhum police station.