Kolkata, April 3 -- The BJP on Thursday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of instigating a mob to gherao for several hours seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Malda district over the deletion of names from the voters list. Security forces used batons to disperse the crowd and rescued the judicial officers, including three women, late at night on Wednesday. Alleging large-scale removal of names of voters in the SIR process, the protesters also blocked National Highway 12 (Kolkata-Siliguri) on Wednesday. The judicial officers, including three women, were at the Kaliachak 2 Block Development Office, which was gheraoed by the protesters around 4 pm. A large contingent of security forces rescued them after midnight. "Afraid of losing the elections following the deletion of names of bogus voters, the TMC has orchestrated this unconstitutional, illegal agitation, keeping judicial officers confined in the extreme heat for hours," BJP state spokesperson Debajit Sarkar said. TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said, "The EC must explain why such a thing occurred. We never support any move to take the law into one's hands." PTI...