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Tension in Malda after mob torches police station


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An uneasy calm prevailed in West Bengal's northern Malda district that flared up on Sunday following a massive protest rally by Muslim groups against the hate speech of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari.

Over two dozens police vehicles, including one belonging to India's border-guarding agency Border Security Force (BSF), were torched. Malda's Kaliachak police station was ransacked as an irate crowd went on a violent rampage at Muslim-dominated Sujapur area in the district. "The situation is now under control. Regular police arrangements are there in that area to take care of the law and order part," Malda district police superintendent Prasun Banerjee told Mail Today, refusing to divulge anything further on the situation and about the organisation which actually took out the protest rally.

Asked about the number of arrests, the police official said that raids are on. "No one has been arrested so far," he added. Armed with tall green flags, thousands of sloganeering protesters took out the march on National Highway (NH)-34 on Sunday protesting self-proclaimed Hindu Kamlesh Tiwari's recent hate speech on Prophet Muhammad, though nobody knew what exactly did the Hindu fundamentalist leader said.

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The violence broke out when the protesters came across a North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) bus that was trying to cross the rally. They got into an argument with the driver of the bus and soon the situation went out of control. The passengers got off the bus as the protesters had set it on fire. Then the mob attacked the nearby Kaliachak police station, drove out all policemen and ransacked the police stations, including its barracks. They destroyed all the records that were stored on piled up files and computers.

The violent mob also attacked the BDO office at Kaliachak-I, they went to Khaltipur railway station and squatted on the railway tracks in protest. When police reached, a clash broke out injuring several cops on duty. As tension gripped the area, shops were shut down. The Muslim protesters also looted some nearby houses. Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel were called in to take control of the situation. Police sources said peace and normalcy were restored in the trouble area late last night. "The situation is under control now," Malda district magistrate Sharad Devidi told Mail Today.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/muslim-mob-turns-malda-into-tinderbox/1/562585.html

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Dadri vs Church attacks vs Malda  ... contrasting reactions from MSM/Kejriwal/Congis/

Never thought I would agree with a sanghi  on anything,but have to agree here.Where is the effing media coverage.

If Modi can be mocked for disrespecting the national anthem,why no questions asked to Mamta on a headmaster being beaten up for asking students to sing the national anthem?

And why has the BJP done nothing about kicking  the bangladeshi immigrants out of India?

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Fake currency racket and it turns into riots

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kaliachak-in-malda-turns-ghost-town-48-hrs-after-violence/1/563443.html

The inside story is that bordering areas like Baliadanga, Mothabari, Danga, Kaliachak and Mohabbatpur have become an epicentre of anti-national activities. Be it peddling of fake notes, illegal migration, arms factory or smuggling goods from across the border, these areas have always topped the chart. But the district police along with the help of BSF personnel had recently beefed up security in these areas, significantly bringing down the crime rate.

In various joint operations, the police and security agencies had seized many FICN (Fake Indian currency notes) consignments that came to this side of the border through the help of locals, but could not be distributed in other parts of the country. The local police and BSF personnel had prepared a detailed list of suspects who were involved in the fake notes racket in the border belt and were keeping an eye on their movements. This is said to have infuriated a section of Muslims in the region who were allegedly involved in anti-national activities.

During the rampage, goons had set the Kaliachak police station afire reportedly with the intention to destroy all criminal records. They had also attacked the block development office and ransacked as many as six houses of Hindu residents, besides setting ablaze over 35 vehicles. "We suspect some anti-national elements may also be involved in the act. We need to identify them from the CCTV footage," a police source said. The NIA, which is probing a pan-India fake notes racket, recently developed a strategy to nab the members of different modules in Malda. The development came following recent arrests of some ISI operatives with Malda links.

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