A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Raju Jha, was shot dead by unidentified miscreants at Shaktigrah in West Bengal s Purba Bardhaman on Saturday evening, the police said.
Some areas in West Bengal s Howrah district on Thursday turned into mini battlefields after clashes broke out between two groups of people over a Ram Navami procession.
The bodies of a senior citizen woman and her two daughters were recovered at their residence at Burdwan in East Burdwan district of West Bengal on Thursday, police said.