A highly decomposed body of a teenaged school girl was found in a jute field on Saturday in a Murshidabad village prompting her family to allege that she was murdered after being gangraped.

In a tragic incident, a 45-year-old man died in a road accident while returning home after cremating his elder brother on Thursday. The accident took place near Berhampore Ramendra Sundar Bridge on National Highway 34.
Earlier in the day, Ajit Ganguly, 53, the Congress gram panchayat pradhan of Margram village in Khargram police station area died of cancer. After paying their last respects, his family members, relatives and younger brother Netai Ganguly carried the dead body in a lorry to the cremation ghat.

A GRP constable beat a 55-year-old man to death at Berhampore railway station in Murshidabad.
Dilip Ghose and his wife from Bongaon were spending the night at the waiting room on their way to Rampurhat on Monday. They had come from a religious trip to Tarapith.

Union minister of state for railway and Murshidabad district Congress president Adhir Chowdhury called a 12-hour bandh in Murshidabad district on February 13 to protest against the “false cases” against his party workers.

A day after Congress workers vandalised the Murshidabad district magistrate (DM)’s office, the Murshidabad police on Friday filed FIRs against Union minister of state for railway Adhir Chowdhury, 22 Congress leaders and around 1,200 Congress workers.

In yet another embarrassment for the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered the superintendent of police (SP) of Murshidabad to probe the complaint of a person Santu Sinha against the state animal husbandry minister and Trinamul Congress candidate for Rejinagar Assembly bypoll Humayun Kabir and submit a report by February 19.

Six tribals from Lalbag have allegedly lost their sight in their right eyes after they were operated without their consent in a private hospital in Berhampore. According to the police, the tribals — five women and a man — from Ichagunj Mogultuli Diyar area are BPL and RSBP (Rashtriya Swastha Bima Praklapa) cards holders.

In a tragic incident, five persons were killed when the ambulance in which they were taking a 65-year-old heart patient Jagabandhu Mondal to the hospital met with an accident in Murshidabad on Tuesday evening. Ironically, Mr Mondal survived.

A businessman was looted of `49,000 and silver ornaments at gun-point in Berhampore on Sunday. But only a few minutes later, he got back his belongings, thanks to a lady constable.

The Lalbag additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Murshidabad on Friday gave life sentence to two police personnel for beating a youth to death. Additional district session judge Sheikh Ali Reza awarded rigorous life imprisonment to the two police personnel who had killed a youth on July 29, 2003.