“Sandeshkhali Violence: SC-ST Panel submits report to Droupadi Murmu, Recommends President’s rule in Bengal”, ABP Live, February 16, 2024:
“National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Chairman Arun Halder on Friday said the panel has recommended the imposition of President’s rule in West Bengal in its report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu on the alleged harassment of women by TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his supporters in Sandeshkhali.
A delegation of NCSC visited Sandeshkhali on Thursday after a large number of women claimed that TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters captured swathes of land by force and also sexually harassed them.
“When we visited Sandeshkhali yesterday, Shahjahan Sheikh and his gang had created a very terrified atmosphere that people were so scared to speak out. They were saying that he and his gang would attack them again once we left,” Arun Halder said, according to ANI…..”
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