Opposition parties have started accusing the state police of taking slow action in arrests and adopting a messageless attitude. In the case of Sandeshkhal in North 24 Parganas district, now suspended Trinamool Congress leader and mastermind of the January 5 attack on ED and CAPF personnel Sheikh Shahjahan managed to remain absconding for 55 days.
While questions are being raised on the police for failing to make even a single arrest on the FIR lodged by the NIA, the same police is quite active in counter-FIRs filed against NIA officials.
A counter-FIR has been filed against the NIA by family members of Monobrata Jana, one of the two Trinamool Congress leaders arrested by the NIA on October morning. The attack took place when NIA officials were returning from Bhupatinagar after arresting Jana and his associate Balai Charan Maiti.The state police has already sent notices to two NIA officials to join the investigation in connection with the attack on its people. Both have been asked to appear at Bhupatinagar police station on April 11. Of the two officers, one is the complainant in the case of attack on NIA officers and the other is the one who has suffered minor injuries.
The officer who suffered minor injuries has also been asked to bring along the medical report related to him. Even NIA officials have been asked to take the vehicle which was damaged during the attack to Bhupatinagar police station.Ravindra Nath Maiti, one of the BJP MLAs from East Midnapore district, claimed that in the Bhupatinagar incident case the police was following the same path as in the Sheikh Shahjahan case after the Sandeshkhali attack on ED officials. "Those responsible for the attack on NI personnel in Bhupatinagar are actually in the safe custody of the police," he alleged.
State Congress president and party's Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhur alleged that "the district police has no moral courage to arrest the accused as they are all close associates of the ruling Trinamool Congress".
While questions are being raised on the police for failing to make even a single arrest on the FIR lodged by the NIA, the same police is quite active in counter-FIRs filed against NIA officials.
A counter-FIR has been filed against the NIA by family members of Monobrata Jana, one of the two Trinamool Congress leaders arrested by the NIA on October morning. The attack took place when NIA officials were returning from Bhupatinagar after arresting Jana and his associate Balai Charan Maiti.The state police has already sent notices to two NIA officials to join the investigation in connection with the attack on its people. Both have been asked to appear at Bhupatinagar police station on April 11. Of the two officers, one is the complainant in the case of attack on NIA officers and the other is the one who has suffered minor injuries.
The officer who suffered minor injuries has also been asked to bring along the medical report related to him. Even NIA officials have been asked to take the vehicle which was damaged during the attack to Bhupatinagar police station.Ravindra Nath Maiti, one of the BJP MLAs from East Midnapore district, claimed that in the Bhupatinagar incident case the police was following the same path as in the Sheikh Shahjahan case after the Sandeshkhali attack on ED officials. "Those responsible for the attack on NI personnel in Bhupatinagar are actually in the safe custody of the police," he alleged.
State Congress president and party's Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhur alleged that "the district police has no moral courage to arrest the accused as they are all close associates of the ruling Trinamool Congress".
