Have you seen this most wanted man!

This man is  Lakpa Rynden Bhutia s/o Lt Passang Bhutia of Armadole, PO-Rose Bank, Darjeeling, PS-Sadar Darjeeling was working as Executive Asstt. Secretary, DGHC and Council Project Officer. He committed a financial fraud amounting to a sum of Rs. 5,14,5000/- by tampering office documents from 04.12.04 to 23.03.05.

 
Please Note: The money that was siphoned off was slated to food supply to the toddlers and primary students in villages and tea estates all over the Hills.

Description: Age-45 years, height-5’5”,

Built: Average, Complexion-Fair, using spectacles.

This refers to Darjeeling Sadar PS Case No. 31 dt 23.05.06 u/s 425/467/468/471/409/120B IPC

 If you have any information on the MOST WANTED CRIMINAL let us know!

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CPI-M delegation to press for Sixth Schedule

Siliguri, Jan. 9: A five-member Communist Party of India Marxists (CPI-M) delegation, led by the former Darjeeling MP, Anand Pathak, today left for Delhi to press for the inclusion of Darjeeling Hills in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.The team is scheduled to depose before the Parliamentary standing committee (home) chairperson, Sushma Swaraj on 11 January. The standing committee is currently hearing political opinions for and against the proposed special status to Darjeeling and would submit a report to Parliament before the budget session.

Other than Pathak, the CPI-M delegation also includes the party’s Darjeeling district secretary, SP Lepcha, KB Wattar, RS Prashad and one more party leader from the Darjeeling Hills. Along with the visit of the CPI-M leaders, another pro-CPI-M intellectual team has also headed for Delhi today. This team too would meet Swaraj and advocate for the Sixth Schedule at the earliest.

CPM youth members join Morcha

Kurseong, Jan. 9: Around 700 members of the DYFI here switched allegiance to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha headed by Bimal Gurung, the zonal secretary of the CPM’s youth front claimed today.

They surrendered their party flag at a programme held at the Morcha office on Monteviot Road here this morning.

“We have not joined the Morcha to become office bearers. Neither are we hungry for posts. The Morcha’s demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland brought us here. We believed in the CPM ideology but at the same time we love our community and its aspirations,” said Mohan Lama, who till yesterday was the secretary of the Kurseong Zonal Committee of the DYFI.

1 held for abducting contractor

Gangtok, Jan. 9: A contractor was arrested for abducting a man yesterday and demanding Rs 45 lakh. The abducted person is also a contractor.

Chandan Gurung was picked up by the Sadar police from 6th Mile, Tadong, for “wrongful restraint and criminal trespass”. A hunt is on for two more persons involved in the extortion bid, the police said.

Film on hill school glory

Siliguri, Jan 9: Kaushik Ganguly of Shunyo e Buke-fame will try to capture the lost glory of hill schools when he directs Prasenjit in a film located in Kurseong.

In Sir, Prasenjit will play the role of a visually challenged teacher of a school that is entangled in a legal dispute.

“While the plot revolves around the love story between the teacher and a solicitor (the actress who will play this role is yet to be decided), the film seeks to portray the old aura of the schools in the hills set up by the British,” Ganguly said.

Governor warns hospital

Gangtok, Jan. 9: Sikkim governor Sudarshan Agarwal today issued a stern warning to the authorities of Sir Thutob Namgyal Memorial Hospital (STNM) for their failure to properly maintain the facility.

“I am very unhappy. Don’t let things slip out of hand,” the governor told hospital superintendent R.L. Sharma just before he concluded a two-hour tour of the entire facility.

Agarwal was apparently peeved by the condition of the road connecting the state hospital to the national highway. “Are there no engineers with STNM?” he asked. When told that the hospital has an engineering cell, the governor wanted to know what it was doing about the road.

Atul faction in Kamtapur revival spree

Siliguri, Jan. 9: Political outfits clamouring for Kamtapur have hurriedly lined up a series of programmes to mount pressure on the Centre for a separate state.

The move comes in the wake of reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is toying with the idea of a Second State Reorganisation Commission to look into the demands for new states.

However, Atul Roy, the president of the Kamtapur Progressive Party, like many others rallying for a separate state — for instance some of the parties in the Darjeeling hills supporting Gorkhaland — appeared not to know that the idea of the commission was still in a nascent stage.

Cold spell creeping up on sweltering Siliguri, Darjeeling Dreams of snow

Darjeeling / Siliguri Jan. 9: Don’t put away your warm clothes just yet. A severe cold spell is expected to grip north Bengal, especially the Darjeeling hills, after this weekend. (Inset: Snow in Darjeeling in 2007)

The news will raise the hopes of residents and tourists who continue to dream of snowfall in Darjeeling hills in February.

The director of the meteorological office in Jalpaiguri, T.K. Chakraborty, today said a western disturbance currently passing over the northern parts of the country is expected to hit Darjeeling and Sikkim by January 13.