After ED, NIA team NOW got attacked in Midnapore, West Bengal

A National Investigative Agency (NIA) team, recently went to Bhupatinagar in West Bengal’s East Midnapore on this Saturday morning. They went to investigate a blast case of at a Trinamool Congress leader’s house. But after reaching the team was attacked by villagers and pebbles were being thrown at a car of the investigative agency’s team.

After attacking ED , Midnapore people now attack INA team!

The NIA officials arrested two local TMC leaders on Saturday morning, the leaders are identified as Manobrata Jana and Balachandra Maity. They were arrested in connection to the bomb blast case happened in 2022. When the team was on their way back to Kolkata, at that time, the villagers attacked the vehicles.As per latest report, one of the cars was damaged. “Locals gheraoed the vehicle and pelted stones at it. The NIA has said one of its officers was also injured,” a senior police official said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also lodged a police complaint regarding this matter, he added.

The NIA team had asked eight Trinamool Congress leaders to appear before its officers on Saturday. They were asked to appear for questioning in connection with the blast that happened at Bhupatinagar in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district in 2022. But the leaders skipped the summon again and again that directed them to visit the NIA office at Kolkata’s New Town on March 28.

Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed NIA officials of attacking villagers. She questioned, “Will the women sit back if they are attacked?Why did they raid at midnight? Did they have police permission? Locals reacted in the way they would have if any other stranger had visited the place at midnight. Why are they arresting people right before the elections? What does the BJP think, that they will arrest every booth agent? What right does the NIA have? They are doing all these to support the BJP. We call upon the entire world to fight against this BJP’s dirty politics.”