Purse hunt

Calcutta, Jan. 24: A police sergeant rode with a 26-year-old IT firm employee for half an hour in search of her phone and purse, which were found from under the seat of a rickshaw she had taken in Baghajatin.

When rickshaw-pullers were being grilled, one of them came up with a packet containing the two items.

Arabul plea

Calcutta: Arabul Islam’s lawyer filed a bail petition on Thursday in a case related to the January 8 attack on CPM cadres in Bamanghata.

Probe appeal

Chinsurah: State Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya has demanded a thorough probe “on humanitarian grounds” into the death of a Trinamul worker allegedly in police custody in Hooghly’s Dhaniakhali.

Trains hit

Calcutta: Five pairs of local trains in the Sealdah main section were cancelled after commuters in Shyamnagar sat on the tracks for two hours from 9.15am protesting a wrong announcement.

Cash missing

Midnapore: A retired government employee in Midnapore has alleged that Rs 8 lakh is missing from her account in United Bank of India.