{"id":13635,"date":"2020-08-10T03:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13635"},"modified":"2020-08-10T03:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:31:25","slug":"former-civic-volunteer-held-for-extortion-in-kolkata-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13635","title":{"rendered":"Former civic volunteer held for extortion in Kolkata | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-77453914,imgsize-87667,width-400,resizemode-4\/77453914.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Representative image\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><span class=\"_3sXlO _1Ee83 img_cptn\">Representative image<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA: A former civic volunteer and his maternal uncle were arrested for threatening a former MMiC and present KMC ward coordinator from <!-- -->Jodhpur Park<!-- --> Ratan Dey and extorting money from bikers at the Lords Crossing last Friday. The <!-- -->cops<!-- --> have identified the accused as Santu Sarkar (22) and Shyamal Biswas (60). <br \/>According to Lake police, Santu stopped a biker at the Lords crossing, claiming that he was a cop. The biker showed him all papers but was still asked to pay Rs 2,000 to avoid &#8216;greater problems&#8217;. When Singh refused to pay and locals gathered, Santu fled from the spot. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/former-civic-volunteer-held-for-extortion-in-kolkata\/articleshow\/77453906.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative image KOLKATA: A former civic volunteer and his maternal uncle were arrested for threatening a former MMiC and present KMC ward coordinator from Jodhpur Park Ratan Dey and extorting money from bikers at the Lords Crossing last Friday. The cops have identified the accused as Santu Sarkar (22) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597030285_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}