The trouble-torn Kaliachak police station area wore a deserted look even 48 hours after large-scale violence. On Tuesday, most residents of the locality, located about 23 km south-west of Malda town, chose to stay indoors and business establishments also remained shut. The situation continued to be tense with Section 144 imposed in the area since Sunday night.

“We have so far arrested 10 people in connection with the violence. We have deployed additional forces in the violence-hit pockets. They are also carrying out extensive flag marches in the area,” Malda district police superintendent Prasun Banerjee told Mail Today. All the 10 accused have been sent to six-day police custody by a district court. Sources said over 120 heads of armed forces from the 4th battalion have been brought in as part of additional security arrangements in the area.

But the flip side of the Kaliachak rampage tells a different story. Security agency officials and police sources revealed that the motive behind the massive rally and subsequent attack on a police station was something else. CCTV footage of the attack at Kaliachak police station is now being examined to identify the people who actually carried out the act of violence and ransacked the barrack.

According to police sources, the entire incident was pre-planned and it was not a mere religious gathering by Muslims groups protesting against the hate speech of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari. A strong anti-Hindu sentiment in the locality, reportedly propagated by all three political parties-ruling Trinamool Congress, Congress and CPI(M)-turned into massive violence on January 3 in which the local Muslims turned hostile towards the state administration. In a fit of rage, they torched buses and police vehicles, ransacked government properties and set the Kaliachak police station on fire.

“The entire act of violence was carried out to terrorise the local administration and to take revenge against the police and security forces,” a senior district police officer said. The inside story is that bordering areas like Baliadanga, Mothabari, Danga, Kaliachak and Mohabbatpur have become an epicentre of anti-national activities. Be it peddling of fake notes, illegal migration, arms factory or smuggling goods from across the border, these areas have always topped the chart. But the district police along with the help of BSF personnel had recently beefed up security in these areas, significantly bringing down the crime rate.

In various joint operations, the police and security agencies had seized many FICN (Fake Indian currency notes) consignments that came to this side of the border through the help of locals, but could not be distributed in other parts of the country. The local police and BSF personnel had prepared a detailed list of suspects who were involved in the fake notes racket in the border belt and were keeping an eye on their movements. This is said to have infuriated a section of Muslims in the region who were allegedly involved in anti-national activities.

During the rampage, goons had set the Kaliachak police station afire reportedly with the intention to destroy all criminal records. They had also attacked the block development office and ransacked as many as six houses of Hindu residents, besides setting ablaze over 35 vehicles. “We suspect some anti-national elements may also be involved in the act. We need to identify them from the CCTV footage,” a police source said. The NIA, which is probing a pan-India fake notes racket, recently developed a strategy to nab the members of different modules in Malda. The development came following recent arrests of some ISI operatives with Malda links.

Source : India Today

Serious Communal clash at Kaliachak put minority Hindus in severe danger in TMC ruled WB

Serious Communal clash continued at Kaliachak in Malda for six hours. Muslim mob attacked Police Station, Block Development Office and Public property. Several vehicles set ablaze. Cops injured, nobody arrested!

Malda : In their own style of maintaining peace, a Jihadi mob torched the Kaliachak police station, attacked officers there, damaged the BDO office, set ablaze nearly 20 vehicles stranded on NH-34 and squatted on the railway tracks for hours on Sunday. Police had to open fire and it took them six hours to bring the situation under control.

A protest meeting (convened by one Edara-e-Sharia-Kaliachak) was to be held on Sunday at Kaliachak against self-proclaimed Hindu activist Kamlesh Tiwari’s recent speech on Muhammad as ‘gay’. The NH-34 was blocked by thousands pouring in to the meeting venue. According to a source, there was a rumour that a BSF vehicle was allowed to go after two jawans ‘opened fire injuring two’.

Soon, rallyists turned violent and ransacked an NBSTC bus that was passing through the area. Later, the mob attacked the BDO office at Kaliachak-I. Thousands went to Khaltipur railway station and squatted on the tracks. When police reached, a clash broke out. Soon, the mob attacked Kaliachak police station.

Bombs were reportedly hurled at will. Cops on duty had to fire blank shots. But this angered the mob and thousands of them forcefully entered the police station. Inspector in charge Subhabrata Ghosh and others were injured. Scared policemen allegedly scampered away. Three ASIs Ram Saha, Debdulal Sarkar, S. Bhowmik and 4 Civic police were injured while 10-12 police vehicles were damaged.

Police fired 40 rounds in blank without yielding any result. But, S.P.(Malda) refused to give permission to fire on the attacking Muslim mob.

Malda SP Prasun Banerjee refused to comment. Trinamool leader Mojahar Hossain and Congress MLA Sabina Yeasmin described the incident as “most unfortunate”.

It is also reported that Shani-temple, Durga Temple and few other Hindu temples have been attacked, desecrated, damaged at Baliadanga and other places.

Many Hindu houses & shops were ransacked, looted by the rampaging Muslim mob. Hindu women were severely molested.

With this horrific incident Hindus (30% at Kaliachak) in Malda are feeling utterly helpless.

Mainstream Bengal media and the National hook-ups are suppressing this mayhem against Hindus. It is their way to maintain Communal peace & harmony.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s administration has totally surrendered to the Muslim communal forces. The reckless & shameless Muslim appeasement in West Bengal for ‘Muslim vote’ is responsible for such upsurge of Islamic fundamentalism in the state.

Reportedly Two FIR lodged by the State but nobody arrested yet. Situation controlled for the time being, but sensing further attack on the minority Hindus in another loop.

It is a big question to Malda minority Hindus that how they will survive with safety and security while police and BSF itself failed to protect themselves.

Some alternative media told that the Jihadi mob was of 2.5 Lakh strength, they shot a RSS activist near Kaliachak police station and Police ran away police stations for hours.

A police constable (requested repeatedly not to disclose his name) told this reporter, “ the Chief Minister of West Bengal is playing the lives of police personnel on her whim. She is telling us to be soft on Muslims and Muslims are trying to take police power in their hands. In one or two years Muslims will run this state, not the administration or police”.

Like other secular political parties, state BJP, under newly elected WB President Dilip Ghosh, is also ignoring the Hindu issues in the state.

Source : Hindu Existence