The West Bengal Police on Tuesday arrested two males accused of the homicide of a father and son in Murshidabad throughout violent protests in opposition to the Waqf Modification Act, The Telegraph reported.
Harogobindo Das, 72, and his 40-year-old son Chandan Das had been killed allegedly by a mob on Saturday within the district’s Shamsherganj space.
Supratim Sarkar, the extra director common of police (South Bengal), informed reporters that Asmaul Nadab alias Kalu Nadab and Dildar Nadab, who’re brothers, have been arrested.
Kalu Nadab was arrested from Birbhum district’s Murarai and Dildar Nadab was held in Murshidabad’s Suti space, the newspaper quoted Sarkar as saying.
The 2 males will probably be produced in courtroom on Tuesday.
The widow of Harogobindo Das alleged within the first info report {that a} mob had dragged her husband and son out of their house and murdered them, The Telegraph reported. “Although there have been many individuals, the homicide was dedicated by few individuals,” she alleged within the FIR, naming 5 suspects.
Whereas Kalu Nadab was named as one of many suspects on the record, his brother Dildar was not, the newspaper reported.
Izaz Ahmed Sheikh, a 17-year-old who sustained bullet accidents in police firing on Friday in Suti, succumbed to his accidents a day later.
The police on Monday stated that greater than 200 individuals had been arrested in reference to current violent protests in Murshidabad.
“For the final 36 hours, there have been no stories of contemporary violence,” the newspaper quoted Javed Shamim, extra director common (regulation and order), as saying on Monday. “We are actually placing all our efforts and channelising all our vitality into bringing normalcy.”
A waqf is a property devoted to a non secular, instructional or charitable trigger below Islamic regulation. Every state has a waqf board led by a authorized entity that’s vested with the ability to accumulate, maintain and switch property.
The current modifications to the regulation curb the authority of waqf boards and permit larger authorities management over them.
The 2024 Waqf Modification Invoice introduced modifications to 44 sections of the 1995 Waqf Act, together with permitting non-Muslims on waqf boards, limiting property donations and altering how waqf tribunals perform.
The invoice was cleared by Parliament on April 4. It obtained presidential assent on April 5 and took impact on April 8.
On the identical day that the Act got here into impact, a mob clashed with the police, threw stones and set the automobiles of safety forces on hearth in Murshidabad’s Jangipur throughout protests in opposition to it. A number of police personnel had been reportedly injured within the clashes.
On Friday afternoon, protestors blocked Nationwide Freeway 12 at Shajurmore crossing close to Dhulian.
Practically 5,000 protesters had additionally blocked railway tracks, leading to two passenger trains getting cancelled and 4 categorical trains being diverted, acknowledged the Jap Railway.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Saturday ordered Central Armed Police Forces to be deployed in Murshidabad district.
