Sandeshkhali Unrest Spills Over, Villagers Attack Local TMC Leaders Over Land Grabbing Accusations thewire.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thewire.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a fresh incident of arson at Sandeshkhali, locals mobbed a bheri controlled by absconding Trinamool functionary Sheikh Shahjahan's brother and torched a structure set up to oversee fishing operations there on Thursday afternoon, prompting police to once again clamp fresh prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC in nine places under five gram panchayats - Trimoni Bazar, Kaharpara, Patrapara, Khulna Hat and Jeliakhali - from Thursday night.
West Bengal: Ruining fields for fishing, converting ponds to land – ICSF icsf.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from icsf.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sandeshkhali: According to locals, political heavyweights like TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides Shibu Hazra and Uttam Sardar overran large swathes of agricultural land, converting them into fishing ponds and drained several ponds to convert them into land. Some say they armed young teens with guns to assist in the land grabbing operations