India, Jan. 3 -- Six police personnel sustained injuries on Friday evening after being attacked by a mob when they detained a Trinamool Congress activist in North 24 Parganas district's Sandeshkhali area.

Police said the team had gone to Boyemari village in Sandeshkhali to locate the suspect, Musa Mollah, who had been pumping water into a land parcel to turn it into a fish farm in violation of court orders.

Mollah had been summoned to the Nazat police station on multiple occasions, but he had not turned up. "On Friday, when police came to the village and detained him, a mob gathered and started pelting stones at the cops," a local resident told the media.

"Six police personnel from Nazat police station were injured in Friday's attack a...