Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) A staff of Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) was attacked by a gaggle of native folks in Bhupatinagar in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, early on Saturday morning, as they reached there to research an explosion that occurred in December 2022 and claimed three individuals.
That is the second incident of assault on a Central company staff inside a span of three months. On January 5, an Enforcement Directorate (ED) and their accompanying CAPF personnel have been equally attacked by a gaggle of over 1,000 people whereas the staff tried a raid and search operation on the residence of suspended Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
As many as three ED officers have been injured within the assault and needed to be hospitalised.
Sources stated that NIA had earlier summoned some native TMC leaders together with Bhupatinagar resident Balai Maiti and Monobrata Jana for interrogation associated to the December 2022 blast.
After the duo ignored the summons for interrogation, NIA reached Bhupatinagar early Saturday morning and detained them. Whereas they have been coming again, a gaggle of native villagers stopped the car and demanded the discharge of the duo.
Because the NIA official refused, a gaggle of over 100 people attacked the car and smashed its glass. Two NIA officers reportedly obtained minor accidents.
Nonetheless, they managed to get out of the spot and attain the native police station. There they’ve began the method of registering an FIR within the matter.
Because the time NIA began a full-fledged investigation into the matter, Trinamool Congress management had described the event as a deliberate transfer by BJP and Central authorities to focus on the TMC leaders.
–IANS
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