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10 Detained After Mob Torches West Bengal BDO Office During Electoral-Roll Hearings

The Election Commission seeks a district report following the violence.

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.