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Seven days after the three tribal women were made to crawl and perform Dandavat Parikrama in Balurghat, police arrested two persons under sections related to SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act among others...
Those arrested are Biswanath Das, an aide of Paradipta Chakraborty, former district Mahila Trinamool Congress, a day after the incident; and Ananda Roy, general secretary of Balurghat Town Trinamool Youth Congress..
On Wednesday, The Indian Express reported that the three tribal women Martina Kisku, Thakran Soren and Shiuli Mardi seen crawling in a 27-second video, purportedly from the BJP to the TMC office in Balurghat as penance for joining the BJP, said they were never with the BJP...
He will be removed soon. The police will take action against the guilty and will have to see that innocent people are not harassed in the case.. Said Swarup Chowdhury, BJP district president: To shield the main culprit, police have arrested the small fry..
Pradipta Chakraborty, president of the district TMC womens wing, told the media the same day that the three women had been misled into joining the BJP, and that as penance they performed the parikrama before rejoining TMC...
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