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Four people were killed at a school during polling for the state assembly elections on April 10, 2021, at Sitalkuchi in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar | Latest News India
The residents of Sitalkuchi’s Jorpatki have a question for the Election Commission: why did it not send any representative to the village after the deaths of four voters in CISF firing, unlike its prompt action when a BJP politician was found dead in the same district? Most of the villagers The Telegraph spoke to said they were high school dropouts with very little idea about the outside world, but were aware that the poll panel was supposed to be a neutral body. Two yardsticks “A few days ago, a BJP leader was found dead in Dinhata town. Immediately, the Election Commission ordered an i...
The four youths of Jorpatki village, who died in a firing by CISF jawans posted at Amtali MSK (booth number 5/126), had bullet wounds in their upper torso, a source in district police said on Tuesday quoting post-mortem reports. “They were hit by bullets in their neck and chest. I don’t know the other details like how many bullets had hit each one of them,” said the source. After the incident on Saturday, Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee had claimed that the central forces had fired at the youths to kill and not to injure them. On Sunday morning, as she spoke with the families through v...
‘Central forces sprayed bullets aiming at the torso of the victims’
Amid violence, high voter turnout in 4th phase polling By IANS | 5 Views People casting their votes at Kasba constituency in Kolkata on April 10, 2021.(Photo:Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS). Image Source: IANS News Kolkata, April 10 : Despite violence and bloodbath in the fourth phase of the assembly polls after five people including four in the firing by the central forces died at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district, a high voter turnout was recorded till 3 p.m. Though the police claimed that the CISF on duty opened fire in self defence that led to the death of four people, the Chief Mi...