“When central investigative agencies come here, the TMC attacks them…it’s a party that crushes the law and the Constitution of the country…you saw what happened in Sandeshkhali. Everyone in the country knows it,” PM Modi said.

NIA officials were allegedly heckled in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on Saturday as they continued their investigation in the Bengal 2022 blast case.

Amid the alleged attack by the crowd, the NIA team arrested two key conspirators in a 2022 blast case, an official told PTI on Saturday.

During the incident, an NIA officer was injured and a vehicle of the NIA team was damaged, a spokesperson of the federal investigating agency said.

Hours after the NIA team — investigating the 2022 blast case — was attacked at Bhupatinagar in East Medinipurof West Bengal, the district police filed an FIR against them under charges of molestation, news agency ANI reported.

Reacting on the incident, PM Modi mentioned that the situation in West Bengal is such that “the court has to intervene” in various matters. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Sunday the central investigating agencies were asking TMC leaders to either join the BJP or face action.

“Agencies such as the NIA, ED and CBI are being used to harass TMC leaders. They are carrying out raids without prior information, and barging into houses. What the women would do if someone entered their house when everyone was asleep in the dead of night?” Banerjee was quoted by PTI as saying.

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Published: 07 Apr 2024, 08:20 PM IST