Last Updated: April 28, 2023, 22:30 IST
Kolkata [Calcutta], India
Residents of Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Raiganj, Kaliaganj, Tufanganj, Balarampur and Cooch Behar city remained indoors as enterprise institutions have been shut and automobiles off the roads due to the band that started at 6 am.
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Protestors broken two buses in Cooch Behar, the place scuffles and heated a verbal spat between BJP and Trinamool Congress employees have been additionally reported
Normal life was affected in the eight northern districts of West Bengal on Friday due to a 12-hour bandh referred to as by the BJP to protest “atrocities on the tribal neighborhood” in the backdrop of a girl’s death in Kaliaganj last week.
Protestors damaged two buses in Cooch Behar, where scuffles and heated a verbal spat between BJP and Trinamool Congress workers were also reported.
However, in other places, the bandh remained peaceful even as 100 agitators were detained from different parts of the region, a police officer said.
Protesters damaged two buses operated by the state-run NBSTC, while BJP activists put up road blockades in different parts of the region, affecting normal life despite heavy police deployment.
Residents of Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Raiganj, Kaliaganj, Tufanganj, Balarampur and Cooch Behar town remained indoors as business establishments were shut and vehicles off the roads due to the band that began at 6 am.
“Barring a few stray incidents, the bandh remained peaceful. Our officers were alert and averted any attempt at disrupting law and order. We took strict action and detained over 100 people trying to disturb the peace,” a senior police officer mentioned.
In Tufanganj’s Chowpati space, police had to intervene when TMC activists tried to cease a BJP rally. An identical state of affairs was witnessed at Chakirbazar in Cooch Behar the place TMC and BJP employees acquired concerned in a scuffle.
The bandh, nevertheless, didn’t have a lot affect on regular life in Darjeeling and Malda districts the place outlets, markets remained open, though BJP employees have been seen protesting exterior authorities workplaces demanding fast “stoppage of labor”.
TMC activists also organised counter-rallies against the bandh and urged people to continue with normal life.
A BJP leader, Anant De Sarkar, alleged that he and his party colleagues were attacked by TMC workers at Ghughumari in Cooch Behar district.
“We called a bandh to protest against what has happened in Kaliaganj. I was holding a peaceful programme in support of the bandh. All of a sudden, we were attacked by TMC workers. Police remained a mute spectator,” he mentioned.
Movement of scholars, and emergency providers have been saved out of the ambit of the shutdown.
Authorities have imposed prohibitory orders underneath Section 144 of CrPC and suspended web providers in Kaliaganj city in Uttar Dinajpur district, which has been rocked by violence since final week over a 17-year-old lady’s dying.
An indication over the lady’s dying had turned violent on Tuesday as a mob set the Kaliaganj Police Station on hearth, and thrashed on-duty police personnel. The protestors claimed she was raped and murdered, although a preliminary autopsy examination report didn’t point out rape.
A civic volunteer, who was critically injured in Tuesday’s violence, succumbed whereas present process therapy on the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri on Thursday.
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