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Jahangir Khan held after two weeks on the run: How Bengal police tracked down TMC's 'Pushpa'

KOLKATA/SILIGURI: The Bengal Special Task Force (STF) and Darjeeling Police caught Trinamool neta Jahangir Khan, who was the party’s Falta candidate, from Panitanki Bazar on the India-Nepal border around 2.30 pm on Sunday. Khan, who earned the sobriquet, ‘Pushpa’, ahead of the elections, had been on the run for two weeks, with at multiple criminal charges and at least seven FIRs for murder, extortion and electoral malpractice, slapped against him. Khan was initially holed up in a hotel in...

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Jahangir Khan, TMC's 'Pushpa', arrested at India-Nepal border on 'extortion' charges

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