NIA team entered West Bengal’s East Midnapore area to probe a 2022 blast case at a Trinamool Congress leader’s house.
When a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived at Bhupatinagar in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal on Saturday morning to look into a 2022 blast case at a Trinamool Congress leader’s home, they were ambushed.
Initial reports stated that the NIA team’s car’s windscreen was damaged by bricks being thrown at it. (HTML File)
Initial reports stated that the NIA team’s car’s windscreen was damaged by bricks being thrown at it. (HTML File)
Initial reports stated that the NIA team’s car’s windscreen was damaged by bricks being thrown at it. Around 5:30 in the morning, the car was stoned and gheraoed by the neighborhood. According to a senior police official, the NIA claims that one of its officers was also hurt.
As they were returning to Kolkata this morning after arresting two people in connection with the case, a group of NIA officers’ car was attacked, according to news agency PTI.
It further stated that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a police complaint in this regard. The two arrested individuals and the NIA team are at Bhupatinagar, where a sizable number of the central police force has arrived, according to authorities.
Three people were killed on December 3, 2022, when an explosion tore apart a thatched-roof house in Bhupatinagar.
Eight officials of the Trinamool Congress were called in by the NIA last month to be questioned on the blast.
The BJP was accused by the TMC of orchestrating the NIA’s action. The eight had ignored the last summons directing them to come to the NIA headquarters in New Town, close to here, on March 28, therefore the central probe agency had requested them to come before its officers.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, according to TMC leader Kunal Ghosh, was behind the initiative.
According to Ghosh, the NIA has received a list of TMC leaders from the Purba Medinipur district from the BJP, and they intend to be arrested.
The attack on the NIA team occurred two months after a group of Enforcement Directorate officers, investigating a multi-crore ration distribution scam in West Bengal, raided the home of Shahjahan Sheikh, a suspended local TMC leader with close ties to the state food minister, Jyoti Priya Mallick, who was arrested. The ED team’s companions from Central Force also came under attack. Hospitalization of three ED personnel was necessary.
By throwing stones at their cars, the crowd allegedly attempted to stop the ED officers from taking Adhya with them. To keep the crowd under order, the CRPF members who were traveling with the ED team had to baton charge them.
