New Delhi: Sandeshkhali witnessed a recent wave of unrest as ladies took to the streets with sticks and brooms, in search of the seize of Sheikh Shahjahan and his cronies, who’re wished for sexual harassment and violence. The police imposed strict curfew orders beneath Part 144 in two village panchayats in Sandeshkhali, the place the state of affairs was most unstable since Friday morning.
Supratim Sarkar, the Further Director of Police (South Bengal), arrived on the troubled spot with a big pressure of police. He urged the ladies protesters to strategy the district administration and file their complaints, quite than demonstrating on the roads. The senior officer additionally tried to influence the protesters by saying that such protests would solely hamper the decision of their issues.
The difficulty in Sandeshkhali had been brewing since Thursday night, when the locals set hearth to a warehouse inside a fish farm owned by Sheikh Sirajuddin, the youthful brother of Sheikh Shahjahan, the alleged mastermind of the assault on the ED and CAPF officers on January 5 morning.
Other than the arrest of the absconding Trinamool Congress chief, the ladies protesters, on Friday, additionally demanded the restoration of farmland that had been illegally and forcibly taken over by Shahjahan and his associates and changed into fish farms by pumping in salt water.
Within the meantime, a BJP delegation led by the get together’s Lok Sabha member Locket Chatterjee and the get together’s legislator Agnimitra Paul was intercepted by the police whereas they have been heading to Sandeshkhali. After being stopped on the Bhojerhat space, Chatterjee and Paul acquired right into a heated argument with the police officers. There was a minor tussle between the BJP supporters and the cops.
Chatterjee was later detained and brought to the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar in Central Kolkata.
