Metro services were disrupted between 3.40pm and 4.08pm on Thursday after smoke was detected on the third rail at Sovabazar station. Engineers found that some polythene bags that were stuck in the tracks had burnt because of heat and caused the smoke. Trains ran between Kavi Subhas and Maidan during this period.
Duped: Two youths, posing as cops, duped a woman in Behala and stole gold jewellery from her on Wednesday afternoon. Jharna Acharya, 65, a resident of Biren Roy Road (East), was about to enter a medicine shop when the duo approached her and advised her to take off the ornaments she was wearing, citing incidents of snatching in the area. They helped her put the jewellery inside her bag and left. Acharya found glass bangles in the bag after she returned home.
Suicide: Abhranil Mal, 23, a first-year student at Shrish Chandra College in Shyambazar, committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills inside a garage on APC Road late on Wednesday. Police said Mal, a resident of Raja Dinendra Street, had left behind a suicide note saying he had been depressed because of his inability to contribute to his family’s earnings.
JU election: An alliance of the Federation of Arts Students (FAS) and the Democratic Students Union (DSO), the students’ wing of the SUCI, won the arts faculty students’ union elections in Jadavpur University. The seats of chairperson, general secretary and assistant general secretary (day) went to the FAS while the SFI bagged the post of assistant general secretary (evening). The elections were held on Wednesday and the results declared on Thursday. The SFI had won all the seats last year.
Fake currency: Mohammad Rehan, 25, a resident of Narkeldanga, was arrested from the Moulali crossing on Thursday evening for carrying fake currency notes. A hundred Rs 500 notes were found on him.
Accident: Mohammad Shanwaz, 30, died after a jeep knocked him down on Central Garden Reach Road around 5.30am on Thursday. Shanwaz, a local resident, was taken to SSKM Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
GATE topper: Kamalika Chatterjee, a Jadavpur University student, has topped the mechanical engineering discipline of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012.
