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The City Diary |
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Skull in tank
A human skull and a set of bones were fished out of the septic tank of a house at Sukantanagar in Salt Lake early on Friday. Workers hired by the house-owner, Niladri Chowdhury, found the bones and the skull while cleaning the tank. They alerted Bidhannagar South police station, from where a team came to question the family members. Chowdhury said the skull and the bones were part of a skeleton his father had collected when he was a medical student.
After my father’s death in 2006, we demolished the chamber and threw the skeleton in the backyard of our house. It might have somehow got into the tank,” Chowdhury said. The bones have been sent for forensic tests.
Green case
The state transport department on Friday submitted in the high court that it had stopped renewing the licences of commercial vehicles more than 15 years old last August. The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra directed the state pollution control board to test the quality of oil used in commercial vehicles and file a report by February 14.
Airport arrest
Latifa Mannan, a 50-year-old US national, was arrested at the city airport on Friday morning for carrying more cash than allowed. Latifa had come to Calcutta from Bangladesh on Thursday. |
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