Priti Sureka, one of the directors of AMRI Hospitals Dhakuria who has been evading arrest since the December 9 fire, moved an anticipatory bail plea in the high court on Monday. he division bench of Justice Ashim Kumar Roy and Justice Toufique Uddin adjourned the case till May 9.ureka’s advocate Pradip Ghosh submitted that since all the arrested directors had been granted bail, there was no need for further interrogation. wo other directors, Aditya Bardhan Agarwal and Rahul, who have also been evading arrest, have filed anticipatory bail petitions. The pleas are yet to be heard in court.
Hearing deferred: The hearing of the anticipatory bail petition filed by retired scientist Aparesh Bhattacharya has been deferred to May 19. Bhattacharya and his daughter were allegedly assaulted by their landlord in Baruipur on April 15.
Youth arrested: A youth was arrested in a Dhakuria school on Sunday for allegedly impersonating a candidate of the Odisha board’s joint entrance examination. Police sources said Kaushik Kumar, a resident of Nawada in Bihar, was caught impersonating Anand Kumar, also from Bihar. Kaushik was supposed to get Rs 20,000 for the impersonation, said cops.
Accidents: Four persons have died in accidents in the city since Sunday night. Bansdroni resident Suresh Kumar, 33, died after he was knocked down by a lorry in the Regent Park area on Sunday night. he driver of a Matador and a 14-year-old girl died and six persons were injured after the vehicle collided with another Matador in the Calcutta Leather Complex area on Monday morning. minibus ran over a middle-aged man on Beleghata Main Road at 3.30pm on Monday. The driver was arrested.
Sleaze racket: Police arrested six persons and busted a sleaze racket operating from a house in Salt Lake’s FD Block on Sunday night.
