After spending a night at the hospital during his one-day jail custody, Subhrangshu Roy, the Trinamul Congress candidate from Bijpur and son of Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy, was granted interim bail by the Barrackpore court on Tuesday. He was produced before additional chief judicial magistrate R.B. Adhikary who let him go after he furnished an interim personal bail bond of `50,000.

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to field against Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday.

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There was record 84.11 per cent turnout in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections, officials said on Tuesday. Polling was held in 54 constituencies in six districts on Monday.

The Barrackpore court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Trinamul Congress candidate from Bijpur Subhrangshu Roy and remanded him in jail custody for a day. The accused will be produced at the court on Tuesday again.

The full bench of the EC on Monday discussed the media reports on CPI(M) central committee member Gautam Deb’s allegations over the use of “black money” worth `100 crores by the Trinamul Congress in the Assembly elections. A top EC official said from New Delhi that the Commission was examining the reports. “The EC is yet to take a decision on whether to order a probe into the allegations. However, the political parties can raise fund by issuing coupons,” the official informed.

A person, identifying himself as chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, called up a man and asked him to pass an order. This incident was brought to the notice of state chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta and city police commissioner R.K. Pachnanda by Mr Bhattacharjee’s election agent and former city mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya. Mr Bhattacharjee is contesting the Assembly elections from Jadavpur constituency.

Over 80 per cent of the voters on Monday cast their votes in 54 constituencies in six districts in North Bengal in the first phase of the six-phased Assembly elections in West Bengal. More importantly, the elections were completely peaceful with no incident of violence, clash and rioting. No person was killed or injured and only 10 persons were taken into preventive custody. The voting took place under an unprecedented security arrangement with the deployment of the Central paramilitary forces in all polling booths.

All eyes would be on the Eden Gardens strip when Kolkata Knight Riders take on Kochi Tuskers Kerala in their Indian Premier League Twenty20 match here on Wednesday.

West Bengal votes from Monday to elect a new Assembly, with most pundits calling it the CPI(M)-led Left Front’s toughest challenge since coming to power in 1977.

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