KOLKATA: Six police personnel sustained accidents on Friday night after being attacked by a mob after they detained a Trinamool Congress activist in North 24 Parganas district’s Sandeshkhali space.
Police stated the workforce had gone to Boyemari village in Sandeshkhali to find the suspect, Musa Mollah, who had been pumping water right into a land parcel to show it right into a fish farm in violation of court docket orders.
Mollah had been summoned to the Nazat police station on a number of events, however he had not turned up. “On Friday, when police got here to the village and detained him, a mob gathered and began pelting stones on the cops,” an area resident advised the media.
“Six police personnel from Nazat police station had been injured in Friday’s assault and a police automobile was additionally broken,” a senior police officer stated.
The mob held the policemen captive and helped Mollah flee from the spot. Police reinforcements had been later rushed to the scene to rescue the personnel.
9 individuals have been arrested for the violence. Police had been additionally questioning the panchayat chief and the deputy chief of the Boyermari-II village panchayat, which is run by the TMC.
Friday’s incident comes two years after a workforce of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that reached Sandeshkhali on January 5, 2024, to raid the residence of native TMC strongman and Zilla Parishad member Sheikh Shahjahan in reference to an alleged ration distribution rip-off.
In February 2024, protests additionally erupted with villagers, principally girls, accusing Shahjahan and his aides of land grabbing and sexual assault. The Calcutta excessive court docket later ordered a CBI probe. Shahjahan was subsequently arrested alongside along with his associates, Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar, and continues to be in jail.
Sajal Ghosh, BJP chief, stated Friday’s incident confirmed that nothing has modified in Sandeshkhali.
“Shahjahan is likely to be in jail however he nonetheless controls every thing. Those that have assaulted the police are all TMC staff. Their job is to extort cash. The police are additionally a slave of the TMC,” he stated.
TMC chief Arup Chakraborty trashed the BJP’s declare, condemning the assault and underscoring that the police had been appearing in opposition to Mollah.
“That is condemnable. Police have taken motion. It was a mob outrage which is being politicised. The opposition can’t do something constructive. They don’t have any challenge in hand and therefore making such statements,” he stated.
