Birbhum Violence LIVE Updates: TMC Block President Anarul Hussain Arrested Hours After Mamata’s Order

Birbhum Violence LIVE Updates: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee reached Bogtui village in Rampurhat on Thursday, three days after the killing of TMC Panchayat leader sparked off arson, burning at least ten people alive, including two children, whose charred bodies were recovered by the police at the scene of the crime.

village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district were badly beaten up before the carnage. As per preliminary findings of the forensic experts, who conducted the tests on the charred bodies found inside the houses that were allegedly set on fire by unidentified people early on Tuesday, the victims were first badly beaten up and then burnt alive, an official told PTI.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday took cognizance of the incident of ‘brutal violence’ in West Bengal’s Birbhum where 10 people, including women, were burnt to death after the murder of a deputy Panchayat Pradhan.

“It is a matter of grave concern and the commission has taken serious note of the lapse on the part of the authorities to take adequate safety measures of the women in those areas,” NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said in a letter to West Bengal DGP Manoj Malaviya.

At least 22 people have been arrested so far in connection with violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district that claimed eight lives, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Family members of Bhadu Sheikh, the TMC Panchayat leader whose killing on Monday is suspected to have sparked off the attack with petrol bombs on some 10 houses in Bogtui village on the outskirts of Rampurhat town, claimed that Sheikh’s sons were among those arrested. However, the police as yet have not released any names of suspects who have been arrested.