Kolkata: One person was killed and another injured as Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters clashed in villages in West Bengal’s Birbhum district yesterday, police said.
The BJP claimed its supporter Sheikh Jasim was fatally shot by musket-carrying Trinamool activists in Chowmondalpur village. Pitched battles have taken place between activists of the two parties in Sirsita, Chowmondalpur and Jadabpur villages since the early hours yesterday.
Birbhum Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria visited the troubled spot where a police picket has been posted.
Birbhum has been tense since last month following regular clashes between the Trinamool and the BJP for control of political turf. Three people — two Trinamool supporters and another owing allegiance to the BJP — were killed in Makra last month in fierce clashes.
Tension continues on arrest of sect leader in Haryana
Barwala: The stand-off between followers of a controversial, self-styled godman and security forces continued near this Haryana town with police failing to take him into custody till last evening.
Hundreds of women and children, along with men followers of sect leader Rampal, continued to provide him a shield by blocking entry of the security forces into the Satlok Ashram to take custody of the controversial godman.
Tension mounted outside the ashram complex, located near Barwala town in Hisar district, as troopers and hundreds of police personnel surrounded the area. Police sources said informal talks between the district authorities and the ashram management failed to break the impasse over his arrest.
Four held in Delhi for gang-rape
New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested on charges of gang rape and sexual assault of a 30-year-old woman from Assam, police said yesterday.
The woman and her male friend were beaten up by the four accused, who later gang raped her. The incident took place in west Delhi’s Mundka area on November 9.
Police said all the four accused were neighbours of the woman. Two of them have been sent to judicial custody, and the two juveniles sent to a correctional home.
The woman, who received severe injuries in her private parts, was discharged from a hospital on Saturday.
In a statement to police, the woman alleged that the four accused barged into her house after consuming alcohol and attacked her and her male friend.
Police said Shahjahan reportedly wanted to marry the woman but she turned down his proposal.
IANS
