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Fact-finding committee members arrested en route to Sandeshkhali in West B
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Six members of an independent fact-finding committee, on their way to Sandeshkhali, were arrested at Bhojerhat in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Sunday afternoon.
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Sandeshkhali: Villagers beat TMC leader Ajit Maity with slippers amid unre
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Visuals from the site showed villagers ransacking Maity's house and beating him up with slippers as protests continued in the Bermajur area of Sandeshkhali where angry villagers clashed with the police on Friday.
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"Do not take law into your hands": West Bengal DGP to villagers at Sandesh
Updated : 2 years ago IST
"All of us need to establish rule of law here. Rule of law does not mean that I have been wronged and so I will take the law into my hands. We have to follow procedure and we are doing it everywhere," the DGP said speaking to reporters at Sandeshkhali on Friday.
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"Where were you earlier?" Sandeshkhali protesters to police as unrest cont
Updated : 2 years ago IST
"We are saying this in pain. Why are they (Shah Jahan Sheikh's aides) breaking into our houses? They are threatening my in-laws. Why are they doing this?" an aggrieved woman protester said as the police tried to pacify the situation.
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West Bengal, land of brave, now echoes with cries of tortured women: BJP
Updated : 2 years ago IST
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi on Friday launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the Sandeshkhali issue, saying the land of the brave, West Bengal, from where the first cries of the struggle for India's independence were heard, is now echoing with the crie
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BJP MP Locket Chatterjee detained by Kolkata Police en route to Sandeshkha
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Kolkata Police on Friday stopped and detained Bharatiya Janata Party MP Locket Chatterjee when she, along with other party leaders, were on their way to trouble-torn Sandeshkhali.
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"Will continue to raise our voices": Sukanta Majumdar after being granted
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Launching a blistering attack on the TMC government, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said on Thursday his party will keep mobilising cadres and holding protests against the alleged events in Sandeshkhali till they were allowed to visit the island in the North 24 Parganas district.
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Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar arrested while protesting against TMC le
Updated : 2 years ago IST
West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar was taken into custody by West Bengal Police after he sat on a protest demanding the arrest of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh in violence-hit Sandeshkhali of North 24 Parganas district.
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NHRC to send team to Sandeshkhali for conducting spot-inquiry on sexual as
Updated : 2 years ago IST
As Sandeshkhali continued to be on the boil, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday stated that it will depute its team to ascertain facts by a "spot-enquiry" into the incidents of violence in the North 24 Parganas island, a press release from the NHRC stated.
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"There will be light at end of tunnel": West Bengal Governor on Sandeshkha
Updated : 2 years ago IST
On a day when the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, arrived in battleground Sandeshkhali after being granted permission to do so by the Chief Justice of the Kolkata High Court, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday sounded a note of optimism saying something 'ho
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Bengal BJPs Suvendu Adhikari permitted to visit Sandeshkhali
Updated : 2 years ago IST
This is his third attempt to visit Sandeshkhali after the allegations against Trinamool leaders raised a political storm.
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'Peace Home' opened at Raj Bhavan as temporary shelter for Sandeshkhali vi
Updated : 2 years ago IST
A 'peace home' has been opened at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata from Monday to provide temporary refuge to the victims of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.
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