Border Security Force personnel on Monday thwarted a smuggling attempt across the India–Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Murshidabad. A cattle smuggler was killed in an encounter, said officials.
The police received the information from Alshifa hospital at around 4 pm on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as one Danish (22), son of Muhammad Murshid, resident of Vishwakarma Colony in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj.
"Today, it feels like an election day. We can see the central forces today", said Anamika Mandal, who came to cast her vote at Tikiapara Primary High School in the Murshidabad district.
Ahead of the re-polling of the Panchayat elections, the voters, on Monday, queued up outside the polling booth in the Murshidabad district. According to an official statement, the re-polling will be conducted in 697 booths across five districts: Purulia, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Nadia and Sou
After a wave of violence that claimed at least 10 lives in West Bengal during Panchayat polls on Saturday, a family member of 62-year-old Congress worker who allegedly killed in the Murshidabad demanded security.
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary visited the hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad on Saturday to meet the family member of a 62-year-old man who was killed in a bombing incident following the panchayat polls.
Ahead of the West Bengal panchayat elections, a clash broke out between Trinamool Congress and Congress workers on Friday night in the Shamsherganj area of Murshidabad district.
Earlier on Sunday, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhary alleged that bombs were being manufactured in almost every house in the villages of Murshidabad and in all other border areas of West Bengal.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhary on Sunday said that the incidents of violence against children in West Bengal's Murshidabad is a 'serious' issue and not just limited to child or human rights but about national security.