Berhampore/Kolkata: The jangipur in Murhidabad region of West Bengal has remained boiling for the incitement of the WAQF Amendment for the third day in a row, while another youth suffered bullet damage in a new round of violence on Saturday night.
The injured Shamsher Naqab (22) has been taken to Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital. His older brother Kaiful Naqab accused BSF of shooting Shamsher at the waist. Shamsher was rescued from the roof of his neighbor’s house, where he was injured.
The young man received gunshots when the BSF was shot when he was shot in the face of an angry protester in Dhulian’s Hijoltala. Angry mobs patrolled the area and knocked down stones and threw bricks and bombs. They also ransacked the BSF vehicle.
Later, BSF (South Bangladesh Border) IG Karni Singh Sekhawat visited the scene. “Visiting destruction will not be tolerated. We are here to assist state police,” he said.
State DGP Rajeev Kumar, a state that camped in a troubled area, claimed on Sunday that “the situation is under control.” SP Jangipur Ananda Roy said 168 people have been arrested so far.
During the day, angry villagers were seen being rushed to a senior police team patrolling Dhulian and complained about Kausar Ali, brother of Mla Monirul Islam, of the Farakka Trinamul Congress, to destroy their houses and shops and to carry out the shops with 200 armed employees.
However, the two brothers deny their role in the incident. They claimed their homes were also attacked on charges and they also tried to set fire. The two then fled to another nearby house, but received no help from police. Mr. Islam later complained to the State Stock Representative DGP that there was no police action. Even Bharatpur TMC MLA Humayun Kabir made the same charges against the state police.
Locals expressed their confidence in the police after being murdered by mobs in the Zafarabad Village in Dhulian late Friday night. They claimed about 200 armed assailants were attacking in a team, but police arrived four hours after the killing and vandalism.
In another development, more than 600 villagers, mainly Indian women in Wards 20 and 21 under the city of Dhulian, fled to the neighboring Baishnabnagar in Malda to save their lives as their houses were damaged by violent attacks by protesters over the past few days.
They crossed the Ganges on a country boat on Saturday night and lived in Pallarpur High School. “Homeless villagers from Dhulian have been placed in our temporary relief centre. They will live here until further ordering. We provide them with dry food, drinking water and clothes.”
Meanwhile, Malda Southern MP Isha Khan Chowdhury met with the state’s DGP and asked the whole party to meet to restore the troubled peace. He also hoped to see the affected person, but his permission was denied.
