Overview
- The Goalpokher-II Block Development Officer filed an FIR after the Chakulia office was ransacked and set on fire during Special Intensive Revision hearings.
- North Dinajpur police registered a case, detained about 10 people, and began an investigation using CCTV footage handed over by the office.
- Six police personnel and some staff were injured in the clashes, with two officers hospitalised, according to the district superintendent of police.
- The FIR estimates damage to government property at roughly Rs 20 lakh, and sources say SIR enumeration forms were likely destroyed in the blaze.
- The incident followed a similar attack on a BDO office in Farakka a day earlier, where two arrests were made, as the Election Commission escalated oversight of the process.