West Bengal Governor Ignores Mamata’s Request To Not Go to Murshidabad, State Submits Violence Report To HC | India Information

Waqf Act Protests In Bengal: Sidestepping Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s attraction to keep away from visiting strife-torn Murshidabad instantly, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose introduced that he would attain the ground-zero of violence.

On his return from Delhi and following a gathering with a gaggle of displaced victims of Murshidabad riots, who have been escorted to Raj Bhavan by state BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, Bose mentioned he intends to go to the troubled spots on a two-day journey beginning Friday to make an goal evaluation of the bottom scenario.

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Bose’s go to coincided with the scheduled go to to the area by a group of Nationwide Girls’s Fee members headed by its chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar.

The developments occurred on a day the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom heard a petition on the extension of keep of central forces within the violence-affected areas of Murshidabad, and a prayer at hand over the probe to the NIA, even because the West Bengal authorities submitted a report detailing the character of violence that unfolded within the district.

The report outlined how, in addition to the commoners, the police have been focused, too, by rioters who steadily turned violent throughout protests over the Waqf Act.

A division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Raja Basu Chowdhury recommended {that a} three-member panel, comprising one member every from the Nationwide Human Rights Fee, the West Bengal State Human Rights Fee and the State Authorized Companies Authority, ought to go to the affected pockets of the district to supervise the restoration of peace and rehabilitation of displaced individuals.

Stating that the scenario was steadily returning to regular in Murshidabad and confidence-building measures have been underway, CM Banerjee urged Bose to defer his proposed go to to the violence-hit areas on the grounds that the restoration course of could possibly be hampered by it.

“I may have gone there, however then others would have additionally mentioned they might go to. The scenario just isn’t conducive now. An SIT has been fashioned to research the unrest in Murshidabad. I’ll go to the district at an applicable time.

“The state authorities will rebuild the homes of the victims. The administration is making an attempt to revive the arrogance of the individuals. I’d request the governor to not go to the riot-hit district now,” Banerjee mentioned.

The governor will depart for Malda on Friday morning and go to the camps the place the refugees from Murshidabad are staying, a Raj Bhawan official mentioned, including, he’ll then depart for the riot-affected areas of Murshidabad and return both on Friday night time or Saturday morning.

Requested about Banerjee’s attraction, Bose mentioned the request can be taken in all seriousness, however after assembly the victims, notably the ladies, he needed to guage for himself the scenario on the bottom.

“If peace is restored, I shall be very blissful about that. As soon as I realise it has been executed, I would be the happiest individual and make my report accordingly,” he mentioned, indicating he’ll submit a report back to the Centre giving an replace concerning the scenario.

In the meantime, in its report back to the excessive courtroom, the state submitted that the anti-Waqf (Modification) Act agitation started on April 4 in all police station areas of Jangipur in Murshidabad.

“Initially, the protests organised by totally different organisations have been peaceable and non-violent,” it mentioned, sustaining that violence by an unruly mob began from April 8.

The report acknowledged {that a} mob of about 5,000 individuals had on April 8 blocked NH-12 at Umarpur and turned vicious.

“They began throwing bricks, stones on police personnel and began assaulting police personnel by lathi, ‘hasuan’ (sharp weapon), iron sticks and lethal weapons with the intention to kill the police personnel,” it mentioned.

It mentioned that the mob had set fireplace to a number of authorities automobiles and different properties.

The report, a replica of which is obtainable with PTI, acknowledged that on April 11, the mob had once more blocked the nationwide freeway and vandalised authorities and personal property at Suti and Samserganj.

It additionally mentioned that at Sajur Extra in Suti, owing to the escalation of violence and “in the correct of self-defence, police opened fireplace to disperse the gang to save lots of the lives of police personnel and common individuals”.

The West Bengal Police arrested one of many masterminds behind the brutal homicide of a father and son at Jaffarabad in Murshidabad through the riots, taking the whole variety of arrests to 3, a senior officer mentioned.

Inzamul Haque, a resident of the neighbourhood the place the killings occurred, was apprehended from the Suti space of the district late on Wednesday after night-long raids, Extra Director Basic (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar mentioned.

“He was not solely concerned in planning the ugly crime, but in addition performed a key position in tampering with proof by snapping the facility provide and destroying CCTV cameras within the space,” Sarkar mentioned.

Earlier this week, police had arrested two brothers, Kalu Nawab and Dildar Nawab – additionally residents of the identical locality – in reference to the crime.

The officer knowledgeable that 278 individuals have been arrested throughout the district to this point in reference to the riots.

Sarkar mentioned no contemporary incidents of violence have been reported within the final 4 days, and that 85 households who had fled their houses have now returned.

The ADG mentioned that Samsherganj — one of many worst-hit areas — can be steadily returning to regular, with almost 70 per cent of the retailers reopened. “Jangipur can be peaceable and steady,” he famous.