Raiganj/Alipurduar, July 6 -- Police carried out three major actions across North Bengal on Monday, including parading a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader in a murder case, arresting two accused in an alleged attack on a BJP protest rally, and producing two women before court in a Rs.1 crore self-help group (SHG) fund embezzlement case.
In Uttar Dinajpur, Police paraded TMC leader Jiaul Hoque through Daspara Market in Chopra with a rope tied around his waist as part of an investigation into a murder case. Police said Hoque, against whom a warrant had been issued, surrendered before the Islampur court last week. After being remanded to judicial custody, police secured three days' custody and took him to the alleged crime scene for investigation.
In Alipurduar, police arrested Sanjay Rabha, Pradhan of Shalkumar Gram Panchayat-II, and former TMC youth president Dipak Majhi in connection with the alleged attack on a BJP protest rally over the 2024 RG Kar incident. Police said the two are also accused in a separate case involving alleged extortion of Rs.50,000 at gunpoint and issuing death threats during the recently concluded Assembly elections. They were produced before the Alipurduar District Court, where police sought seven days' custody.
In another case, Samuktala Road Outpost police arrested SHG president Rina Das Debnath and vice-president Seema Sarkar from Kokrajhar, Assam, over the alleged embezzlement of nearly Rs.1 crore.
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