Court orders police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and Akramul Bagani in Kaliachak incident
A court has ordered 14 days of police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and 6 days of police custody for Akramul Bagani, the main accused in the Kaliachak incident in Malda in West Bengal.
Both were arrested for allegedly instigating the mob that gheraoed the BDO office.
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The protesters were demanding that names be included in the voters’ list and held the judicial officials inside the office without food or water for more than nine hours.
Earlier, a 40-member NIA team arrived in the Malda district to investigate the siege of seven judicial officials at the Kaliyachok-2 BDO office on Wednesday.
The investigation also covers the subsequent attack on the officials while central forces were in the process of rescuing them. The NIA team reached the Mothabari police station and subsequently visited the BDO office.
On the arrest of Mofakkarul Islam, the mastermind of the Malda incident, Union Minister and BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar said:
"The NIA investigation going on. Before that, the state CID arresting him felt suspicious to me. Whether this arrest was done for the sake of arrest or to protect him will be known after the investigation. TMC is behind the Malda episode," he said.
LoP Suvendu Adhikari, who is taking on Mamata Banerjee in Bhawanipore, said: "They (TMC) are trying to do gadbad (in elections). Modi ji has said that 'jungle raj' will be eliminated from West Bengal."
On law and order situation in the poll-bound state, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar said:
“…I have not seen such an incident in the country before. Everything is happening under the direction of Mamata Banerjee in Bengal… She should be arrested… the Supreme Court should impose Article 356 as soon as possible and conduct elections in a fair manner".
Altogether 35 people have been arrested and as many as 19 cases have been filed.
Seven court-appointed judicial officers — two of whom were women — were trapped inside the BDO’s office for more than eight hours on Wednesday night until the police escorted them out around 10 PM.
An eighth officer — a woman — was stranded in her car on the road to the BDO’s office during the agitation in which locals blocked roads, including NH-12.
Even at later stage as the officers were being driven to safety, people blocked roads with bricks and bamboo poles and pelted stones at the passing vehicles, damaging several.
The NIA team visited these spots and collected samples. The Supreme Court has slammed the state government over the unprecedented episode.
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