NIA arrests 16 for communal assault throughout Ram Navami procession in West Bengal

NEW DELHI: The Nationwide Investigation Company has arrested 16 individuals for conspiring and finishing up a communal assault throughout a Ram Navami procession in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district final 12 months.The arrests — an vital improvement since NIA took over six circumstances in April final 12 months referring to the Ram Navami violence, as per orders of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket — had been made on the idea of revelations made throughout the course of the probe and identification of the accused from video footage seized by the company, an NIA spokesperson stated on Monday.The 16 accused taken in custody by NIA have been recognized as Afroj Alam, Md Ashraf, Md. Imtiaz Alam, Irfan, Kaiser, Md. Farid Alam, Md. Furkan Alam, Md. Pappu, Md. Suleman, Md. Sarjan, Md. Nurul Hoda, Wasim Arya, Md. Salahuddin, Md. Jannath, Wasim Akram and Md. Tanweer Alam. All of them are residents of Dalkhola.The case by which the newest arrests had been made pertains to the violence throughout a procession to have fun Ram Navami in Dalkhola, District Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal. The accused had been among the many perpetrators of the assault on members of a specific neighborhood taking part within the procession, NIA stated on Monday.Violence and arson had been reported in a number of locations in Bengal’s Howrah and Hooghly throughout the Ram Navami procession on March 30 final 12 months. It had triggered a political slugfest between BJP and the Mamata Banerjee govt.West Bengal Police had initially registered a case towards 162 individuals within the wake of the communal violence triggered by the assault at Tajamul Chawk, Uttar Dalkhola. Subsequently, the Excessive Court docket of Calcutta, on April 27, 2023, ordered the switch of circumstances associated to communal violence to NIA. Accordingly, NIA took up investigation of six such circumstances.

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