SANDESHKHALI: In a recent incident of arson at Sandeshkhali, locals mobbed a bheri managed by absconding Trinamool functionary Sheikh Shahjahan’s brother and torched a construction set as much as oversee fishing operations there on Thursday afternoon, prompting police to as soon as once more clamp recent prohibitory orders below part 144 of CrPC in 9 locations below 5 gram panchayats – Trimoni Bazar, Kaharpara, Patrapara, Khulna Hat and Jeliakhali – from Thursday evening. Villagers alleged the bheri, unfold over six bighas, was one in all a number of farmlands forcibly grabbed by Shahjahan’s brother Siraj and transformed into fishing farms. “The prohibitory restriction will continue till 12pm on Feb 24,” a senior district police officer mentioned.As information of the arson unfold, a whole bunch of girls gathered on the spot and staged an agitation demanding the arrest of the 2 brothers. The locals alleged the arson befell quickly after Siraj and his males visited Jhupkhali below Bermajur gram panchayat II on Thursday morning and threatened girls with dire penalties. “Siraj and his gang roamed around the bheri area and threatened women. Villagers chased them out. Later, a mob set the structure (ala ghar) adjacent to the bheri on fire,” a villager mentioned. When DIG (Barasat Vary) Bhaskar Mukherjee and Basirhat SP Hossain Mehedi Rehman reached the spot with a big police power, the villagers demanded safety. “Siraj and his men will come again at night. Who will give us protection then?” the ladies requested. DIG Mukherjee shared with the villagers cellphone numbers of senior officers and guaranteed that police power would attain them inside 5 minutes of a name. SP Rehman mentioned he was attempting to organise a camp the place girls would have the ability to lodge their complaints. Earlier within the day, a village floor unfold over a few bighas that was allegedly locked up for years by ‘Sheikh Shahjahan Fan’s Membership’ was thrown open to the locals. Trinamool Sandeshkhali MLA Sukumar Mahata additionally toured the trouble-torn hamlets and guaranteed cheated villagers that their cash could be returned. In the meantime, six villagers named in a grievance lodged by arrested TMC functionary Shibu Hazra for ransacking and torching his poultry farms, have been granted bail by a Basirhat courtroom after they surrendered.
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