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Polarisation to voter deletions: In Bengal fray, why SIR cloud hangs over key Muslim belts

April 11, 2026 1:36 pm

Amid worry and uncertainty in Murshidabad, Malda on poll eve, TMC believes adjudication would consolidate Muslim base, while BJP hopes to cash in on polarisation

Malda judicial officers attack case: NIA files 12 cases, teams on the ground after SC order

April 09, 2026 8:47 am

A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant invoked Article 142 to hand over the probe into the Malda case to NIA, even if the offences fell outside its usual jurisdiction.

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West Bengal SIR protest: NIA registers 12 cases in Malda judicial officers gherao

April 09, 2026 5:33 am

While 35 arrests have been made in the matter so far, the investigators are probing who planned the attack and detention of judges, seeking to identify the mastermind behind the violence.

SIR deletion protest erupts in Bengal, 7 judicial officials gheraoed for 8 hours, NH-12 blocked

‘May not be consistent with assigned role’: Malda ADM asked to show cause within 7 days over attack on judicial officers

April 06, 2026 1:28 pm

The Malda additional district magistrate (law and order) has also been asked why he publicly committed to ‘obtain the reasons for each deletion from the Electoral Roll from the Judiciary or the Commission.’

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Who is Malda stir ‘mastermind’ Mofakkerul Islam? Lawyer, contested 2021 polls for AIMIM

April 04, 2026 12:52 am

Since SIR began in the state, Islam has been uploading videos on the exercise social media, providing people with legal advice

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Days before gherao, judicial officers wrote to Malda DM, flagged fear of security breach

April 04, 2026 8:18 am

In a letter dated March 23, the officers said that with publication of the supplementary voters’ list approaching, the environment at the BDO office was becoming “increasingly sensitive”.

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NIA team reaches Malda to investigate gherao of judicial officers engaged in SIR

April 04, 2026 4:11 am

Team collects CCTV footage, seeks details of obstacles faced by police

‘It was planned’: Mamata alleges ‘BJP-MIM-Congress’ plot in Malda violence

April 04, 2026 9:43 am

The CM also blamed Congress and the Owaisi-led AIMIM for using the “opportunity to provoke minorities”

Bengal: In 'rarest of rare case', Malda youth who killed 4 of his family gets death sentence

May 19, 2025 4:42 am

The murders took place on February 28, 2021, but an FIR was filed four months later, on June 9, 2021, after Asif’s elder brother, Arif, told the police about the crime

21 arrested after Malda clash 'over parking'; police rule out communal angle

May 18, 2025 7:42 pm

The situation at Ratua in West Bengal's Malda remains tense, with the Opposition BJP blaming 'radical extremist elements' for the incident

MALDA VIDEOS

Why are secular leaders 'silent' on Malda Incident: BJP

January 11, 2016 8:16 am

New Delhi, Jan 11 (ANI): Describing the riot in Malda district as an act of communal violence, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday asked why secular leaders are silent on the incident. Naqvi further said the way communalisation is done under the protection of the West Bengal government is unfortunate and condemnable. He also alleged that the state government is playing vote bank politics on the incident.

Malda violence: BJP fact-finding team hits out at Mamata for imposing Sec. 144

January 11, 2016 6:47 am

Malda, Jan 11 (ANI): The three-member fact-finding delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who were detained here on Monday, lashed out at the state government for denying them entry to the violence-hit area in Kaliachak and asserted that they had come to Malda will the sole purpose of helping the people but failed to do so, as Section 144 had been imposed in the area.SS Ahluwalia said, "The District Magistrate told us himself that Section 144 had been imposed due to the law and order situation in the area. We said that we have not come here to destabilise the situation but to help the people. We want to know the truth,"

Mamata responsible for Malda rampage: BJP

January 11, 2016 4:58 am

New Delhi, Jan 11 (ANI): Holding West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee responsible for the Malda rampage, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Siddharth Nath Singh on Monday hit out at the state government for the detention of a three-member fact-finding team of the BJP at the Malda Railway Station. Singh said that when a three-member delegation of BJP goes to Malda to know what the facts are on the ground, they are detained at the Malda station.