At least 22 people have been arrested so far in connection with violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district that claimed eight lives, a senior police officer said on March 23.
Family members of Bhadu Sheikh, the TMC Panchayat leader whose killing on March 21 is suspected to have sparked off the attack with petrol bombs on some 10 houses in Bogtui village on the outskirts of Rampurhat town, claimed that Sheikh’s sons were among those arrested.
However the police as yet have not released any names of suspects who have been arrested.