Fresh clash in Midnapore, 14 hurt

MIDNAPORE, MAY 30: At least 14 people, including four cops, were seriously injured when irate businessmen allegedly supported by Trinamool...

MIDNAPORE, MAY 30: At least 14 people, including four cops, were seriously injured when irate businessmen allegedly supported by Trinamool Congress workers clashed with the police following an altercation over re-opening of their shops, closed due to present political tension, at Pingla.

Demanding an immediate end to the continued closure of shops on security ground, the businessmen allegedly joined by TMC activists, Monday night turned hostile while demonstrating before the police camps against what they said police excess on the pretext of security, the police said here on Tuesday.

The agitators were chased away when they threw stones on the camps, they said. All the injured were admitted to a local health centre.

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Following the incident the local business community have announced boycott of the police and an indefinite Pingla market bandh.

A platoon of Eastern Frontier Rifles has been deployed at Pingla and Sabang areas and road links between Pingla, Jalchak and Sabangh areas, allegedly cut off by TMC workers recently, have been restored, they said.

Meanwhile, elaborate security arrangements have been made in view of public meetings at Debra where former premier Viswanath Pratap Singh and West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu would be addressing public meetings here on Wednesday.

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