A team of National Investigation Agency ( NIA) was attacked by locals in West Bengal’s Bhupatinagar area in the morning on Saturday during an early morning raid in connection with investigation in bomb blast . An NIA official suffered minor injuries in the attack.
The NIA team was visiting the area in connection with investigation in the Bhupatinagar blast case of December 2022. The explosion due to crude bombs on December 3, 2022, had claimed three lives. Officials today arrested two key conspirators “amid stiff resistance from an unruly crowd in the state’s East Medinipore district.”
“The duo, Balai Charan Maity and Manobrata Jana, were arrested after extensive searches at five locations, including the house of Jana, where a crowd of local residents tried to obstruct the NIA team,” the agency said in a press release.
