Friday , October 24 , 2014

Bengal cops attacked with bombs when they raid suspect village

Suri (WB), Oct. 24 (PTI): The officer-in-charge of Parui Police Station in Birbhum district was injured on Friday when bombs were hurled at a police team that had raided a village after it was informed that bombs were being manufactured there. OC Prosenjit Dutta has been admitted to the intensive care unit of Suri Hospital with splinter injuries. Ananda Roy, the Additional Superintendent of Police, Birbhum district, said that a strong police contingent led by the OC had raided Chakmondola village and seized bombs. As the alleged bomb-makers escaped soon after the police team arrived, some people threw bombs and brickbats at the police team, injuring the OC and three other policemen. The police are searching the area. No arrest had been made yet. The OC told reporters that the police team went to the village on being tipped off and that the villagers threw the bombs. ”We had information and went there to seize bombs and we recovered some. The raid was continuing. Bombs were hurled at us,” he said. ******************** Bomb Thrown At Police Team at a  Village in West Bengal All India | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: October 24, 2014 23:19 IST Click to Expand & Play The officer in charge of the Parui police station, Prasenjit Dutta, and two more policemen were injured in the mob attack in Birbhum. BIRBHUM:  A police officer was wounded when he and his team were attacked with bombs,  bricks and sticks at a village in West Bengal's Birbhum district today. The police team had  gone to the village this afternoon on a tip off that bombs were being made or stocked in the  village.  The tip off did hold true at Sottor village where the police found at least 200 bombs stored  in 14 drums at a disused health centre. But when they went to the adjoining Chowmandal  village to search a poultry farm, they were attacked by the villagers.  The OC (officer in charge) of the Parui police station, Prasenjit Dutta, and two more  policemen were injured in the mob attack. The OC has been admitted to a hospital at district  headquarter Siuri with splinter injuries. A large police force rushed to the area and raided several houses in Chowmandal but did not  find any bombs. 14 people have been detained for the attack on the police. The political affiliation of those detained is not known but the incident has acquired political  overtones. The CPM and the BJP are blaming the ruling Trinamool Congress of stashing the  bombs. The Trinamool in turn is blaming it on the BJP.  The CPM and the BJP are pointing to a public statement by TMC's Birbhum district chief  Anubrata Mondal urging his supporters to "bomb the police". Trinamool sources, however,  claim that the BJP was trying to "capture" some villages in Birbhum and were stocking bombs  for the turf war.  BJP's Rahul Sinha said, "The Trinamool is passing the buck. They attacked the police and  are blaming us. But it is they who have been terrorising BJP supporters in the districts." Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee issued a statement saying, "BJP is quick to rush to  conclusions and preaching from Delhi. Birbhum incident is being investigated. Law will take  its own course. Culprits will not be spared." Trinamool's Anubrata Mondal has said, "Asking people to bomb the police was the biggest  mistake of my life."  ************** More: Police recovered huge cache of bombs from Sattora healh centre at Parui