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Cop loses hand in fresh violence over Ram Navami rallies in WB

Cop loses hand in fresh violence over Ram Navami rallies in WB

TIL Desk/National/WB/ Trouble over Ram Navami processions continued in West Bengal for the second day on Monday as members of saffron outfits clashed with the police in Murshidabad and Bardhaman West districts, resulting in a senior police officer losing his hand when a bomb was hurled at him.

One person was killed and five police personnel were injured on Sunday in a clash between two groups in Purulia as sword-wielding Bharatiya Janata Party supporters defied the state government’s ban on armed rallies on Ram Navami.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed the director general of police to instruct all the superintendents of police to take strong action against those who carried arms in the rallies.

“The law will take its own course. I will not tolerate this,” she said at a meeting at Pailan, adding that action would be taken against the police if they failed to take measures in this regard.

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