Dinhata firing:Bloc workers get bail

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Posted online: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 02:21:50
Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 02:40:54

Kolkata, February 19 A division Bench of Justice Amit Talukdar and Justice P S Banerjee granted bail on Tuesday to 40 Forward Bloc supporters, arrested at Dinhata on February 5 after the police firing there.

The police had opened fire on Bloc supporters while they were trying to enter the sub-divisional officer’s (SDO) office during a law violation programme. Five persons and one NVF personnel were killed in the firing.

Advocate Sekhar Bose, counsel for the Bloc supporters, argued that the police had arrested the supporters merely on political consideration.

But Asimesh Goswami, the public prosecutor opposing the bail petition, said the supporters had ransacked the SDO’s office and damaged government property and attacked police personnel.

Bose argued that the SDO had himself lodged a complaint with the police around 3.30 pm while the incident took place around 12.40 pm. Though the FIR, lodged by the SDO, admitted that police firing had taken place, he did not mention the four deaths resulting from the firing.

Bose held the police had opened fire on the supporters without any prior warning. And the FIR suppressed the fact that firing by police officers had claimed five lives.

After the hearing, the division bench admitted the bail petition filed by the Bloc supporters.

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