A 55-year-old pedestrian was hit by a motorcycle at the crossing of AJC Bose Road and DL Khan Road around 8.10am on Monday. The woman was admitted to SSKM Hospital. She had not been identified till Monday evening.
Suicide
An 80-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by setting herself ablaze at her Vivekananda Pally home in Parnasree early on Monday. Gita Majumdar was declared dead at Vidyasagar State General Hospital, police said. A suicide note was found in her room, the police said.
Priest dead
A 65-year-old man who was a priest at a temple in Kasba died on Monday. Tapan Banerjee was found unconscious on the road in Kasba around 7am, police said. He was declared dead at MR Bangur Hospital. Banerjee was a resident of Rathtala in Kasba. Preliminary investigation by the police suggested no foul play. The body has been sent for post-mortem.
Attack arrest
A woman was allegedly attacked by her son-in-law in Ashoknagar, North 24-Parganas, on Monday. Rama Adhikari was attacked with a knife by Sonai Bagchi when she refused to let her daughter go home with Bagchi because he would torture her, police said. Adhikari was admitted to hospital. Bagchi was arrested.
Negligence charge
Relatives and neighbours of a patient who died on Monday ransacked a nursing home in Durgapur alleging medical negligence. Family members alleged Soumen Biswas, 25, was admitted to Jeevandeep Nursing Home near Durgapur railway station with abdominal pain on Sunday evening. “We wanted to shift him to a bigger hospital because his condition was deteriorating but hospital authorities were indifferent,” said a family member, adding that doctors did not attend to their ward. Biswas died on Monday. The family demanded Rs 5 lakh compensation from the nursing home. No official complaint had been lodged, police said.
Car hits bike, one injured
A pillion rider was injured after a car hit the bike on Rani Swarnamoyee Road in Narkeldanga on Sunday night, police said. Srikant Singh, 55, the injured, was wearing a helmet, the police said. Cops arrested the driver of the private car for rash and negligent driving and seized the vehicle.
Building fire
A fire broke out on the second floor of a four-storey residential building on Aga Mehdi Street in Taltala on Monday morning. Two fire tenders doused the flames. No one was injured or trapped in the fire, police said.
Birth and death certificates
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has announced that birth and death certificates will be issued at four places, instead of from the civic headquarters, from Tuesday to prevent assembly of many people at one place, a common step adopted across offices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “The certificates will now be given from the offices in the building housing Nizam restaurant, the annexe building of Hogg Market, the ward health unit of Ward 46 on Free School Street and the CMC office in Hudco Building on Finick Bazaar Street,” said a CMC official. Birth certificates of children born more than five years before the date of application are issued at the CMC headquarters. Birth certificates for children born within five years of the date of application are issued from the borough offices of the areas where the hospitals where the children are born are located.
Cops to wear masks
All officers at police stations in Calcutta will have to wear masks while on duty. An officer at Lalbazar said all visitors approaching police stations to lodge complaints will be given hand sanitisers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.