#5. On Sunday, one person was killed and five policemen were wounded in clashes throughout a procession in Purulia, as sword-wielding BJP supporters' challenges a government ban on armed rallies at numerous places in West Bengal, police told.
Refusing the Centre's offer to send paramilitary forces to the violence hit Asansol, Chatterjee said state police was well equipped to control the situation.
At least two persons were killed and almost a dozen others injured, some of them seriously, in intermittent violence involving Ramanavami processions at various places in West Bengal, including Purulia, Murshidabad, Bardhman West and Raniganj. Peace has been restored with additional police forces patrolling the area, District Magistrate Shashanka Shetty said. She said action would be taken against police if they failed to take measures in this regard. "Sixteen persons have been arrested".
In Nadia, Birbhum, Bakura, East Midnapore, Purulia, Burdwan, North and South 24 Parganas, Coochbehar, North & South Dinajpur districts, huge rallies were taken out to celebrate Ram Navami.
My husband doesn't pray, is irresponsible, woman tells court
As reported, the husband flogged his wife because he only wanted to "teach a lesson to the woman ". Stone later confirmed to police that she did attack her husband because he forgot the special day.
In the Raniganj area of Bardhaman West district, two police officers were seriously injured when two groups attacked each other during a rally. "The police will take legal action against it", Sharma said. Officer in-charge Pramit Ganguly also received head injuries, the officer had said.
Tension soared high as several shops and houses were vandalised and set ablaze during the Ram Navami procession. "I will not tolerate this", Banerjee said at a meeting in Pailan near here.
MP from Asansol, Babul Supriyo on Tuesday accused the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of destroying communal harmony by practising "appeasement politics" and called on Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi to apprise him of the situation in Raniganj. According to this report in The Huffington Post, Kolkata police had registered suo moto cases against organisers of the armed rally.
