The Superintendent of Police (Purba Medinipur) Soumyadip Bhattacharya has made it clear that the NIA team first came to the Bhupatinagar police station while Mamata Banerjee alleged that the central agency officials did not bother to inform the local police.
While speaking about the matter to ABP Ananda, BJP spokesperson Dhruba Saha said, "It is true that every village of West Bengal has now become Sandeshkhali."
National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has issued a notice to the West Bengal government connection with objectionable remarks against PM Narendra Modi by TMC leader Pijush Panda.
In a video of the incident that was widely shared on social media, locals were purportedly seen gathering around a vehicle, trying to stop the NIA team from taking the suspect along with them.
"When I was released from jail in the evening, I found out that the temple had been destroyed. They had also begun illegal construction in a manner that the foundation of my boundary wall would collapse," Durga Roy narrated.