The Election Commission has given a clean chit to CISF in connection with the Sitalkuchi violence incident. Election Commission of India office | Photo Credit: IANS
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India on Friday announced to give compensation to the kin of the four Cooch Behar violence victims. Four villagers of Jor Patki village in Sitalkuchi were killed in the firing of the central forces in West Bengal and one person was killed by some unknown miscreants while coming out after casting vote.
The CISF personnel had opened fire after they allegedly came under attack from a group of villager at 126/5 in Jorpatki in Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency where polling was underway for the fourth phase of West Bengal election 2021 on April 10.
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The residents of Sitalkuchi’s Jorpatki have a question for the Election Commission: why did it not send any representative to the village after the deaths of four voters in CISF firing, unlike its prompt action when a BJP politician was found dead in the same district?
Most of the villagers
The Telegraph spoke to said they were high school dropouts with very little idea about the outside world, but were aware that the poll panel was supposed to be a neutral body.
Two yardsticks
“A few days ago, a BJP leader was found dead in Dinhata town. Immediately, the Election Commission ordered an investigation and sent the special police observer to Cooch Behar to conduct an inquiry and submit a report,” said Mortuza Mian, a local youth.
05 dead as over 76% cast their votes in West Bengal 4th phase polls
A total of five people were killed in two separate incidents in Cooch Behar district on Saturday
Saturday April 10, 2021 11:08 PM, IANS
Kolkata: Despite violence and bloodbath in the fourth phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, which saw five people get killed at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district, the state recorded a relatively low turnout of 76.16 per cent till 5 p.m.
A total of five people were killed in two separate incidents in Cooch Behar district on Saturday. Four persons were killed when central forces opened fire on an unruly mob in Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency in Mathabhanga block, while in another incident in the same constituency, a first-time voter was killed.
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