Mobbed & thrashed — attack on ED team not 1st time central agencies faced hostility in Bengal

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Kolkata:The mob attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district is not the first such episode in this part of the country...

The Assistant Enforcement Officer (AEO) was beaten up by eight-nine people suspected to be TMC workers while he was buying groceries...

In the latest incident, an ED team along with CRPF personnel had reached TMC convenor and strongman Sahajahan Sheikhs residence to carry out a search in connection with the alleged ration distribution scam...

Suddenly, they started attacking the ED officials and CRPF personnel and started pelting stones and brick at them and attacked the officers as well as CRPF personnel with stones, lathis, using physical force and raised slogans against the ED officers, it added...

ED sources told ThePrint they have lodged a police complaint and have also requested the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to provide additional security cover for its officers and office in West Bengal...

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