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Kolkata, October 9 (IANS) A petition was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday demanding a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the attacks on BJP Lok Sabha member Khagen Murmu and the party’s chief whip in the West Bengal Assembly Shankar Ghosh.
The petition has been accepted by the court and the matter is likely to be heard next week.
The vehicle of Murmu and Ghosh was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress workers at Bamundanga in Jalpaiguri district on Monday afternoon when they were going to Nagarakata in the same district with relief material for flood-affected people.
Murmu was seriously injured in that attack and is currently admitted in a hospital in Siliguri in Darjeeling district. Ghosh was also admitted to the same hospital with minor injuries and was discharged from there on Wednesday afternoon.
In a petition filed in the Calcutta High Court, petitioner Anindya Sundar Ghosh expressed doubts over the outcome of the state police investigation and insisted on a probe by the Central Investigation Agency for a full-proof investigation.
As of Thursday morning, four people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Murmu and Ghosh, two of whom were arrested on Wednesday afternoon and the other two on Thursday morning.
From the very beginning, an attempt was made by the Trinamool Congress to make this attack a spontaneous public complaint against the BJP.
Even Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday supported her party’s theory that the attack on BJP Lok Sabha member Khagen Murmu in Jalpaiguri district on Monday afternoon and party chief whip in the West Bengal Assembly Shankar Ghosh was the result of spontaneous public outcry, and said people in the area where the attack took place were upset with the BJP as their elected representatives never visited the area. After being elected.
Meanwhile, Shankar Ghosh, who was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, said on Thursday morning that he would return with relief material to the same place where he and Murmu were attacked.
–IANS
Source/DPB