NIA vehicle attacked in Bengal, videos surface

Kolkata: A vehicle carrying NIA officials was on Saturday attacked by villagers in the Bhupatinagar area of West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district, where they had gone to investigate a 2022 bomb blast case, police said.

A team of NIA officials earlier this morning arrested two persons in connection with the case and were on their way back to Kolkata when the vehicle came under attack, they said.

"Locals gheraoed the vehicle and pelted stones at it. The NIA has said one of its officers was also injured," a senior police official said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also lodged a police complaint in this regard, he said.

Officials of the federal probe agency were unavailable for comments on the incident.

A huge contingent of the central police force has reached Bhupatinagar, where the NIA team is present along with the two arrested persons, police said.

Three persons were killed when an explosion ripped apart a kutcha house in Bhupatinagar on December 3, 2022. The investigation was later handed over to the NIA.

Saturday’s incident also brought back memories of January 5, when ED officials were attacked in the Sandeshkhali area in North 24 Parganas during a raid in connection with a ration scam.

BJP IT cell head and in-charge of the party's West Bengal affairs Amit Malviya shared the videos of the attack on NIA team on X.

West Bengal continues to remain lawless, as ever, under Mamata Banerjee’s misrule.



After attack on ED officials, now another central agency has come under attack. A team of NIA officers, which went to Bhupatinagar in East Medinipur District of West Bengal, to arrest two TMC… pic.twitter.com/GALVYR7fbs

— Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) April 6, 2024