West Bengal police have arrested a 19-year-antique for allegedly sporting a weapon for the duration of the Ram Navami procession. Sumit Shaw, who become visible with a gun in a video going viral on social media, become arrested from Munger in Bihar today. According to police sources, Shaw has confessed to sporting a firearm for the duration of the Ram Navami rally.
A video shared on Twitter through Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee indicates a spiritual procession wherein a younger guy become visible conserving a firearm. NDTV can not independently confirm the authenticity of the video.
BJP, responding to Mr Banerjee`s tweet, claimed that the video isn’t always from the Ram Navami rally which become organised through the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Bengal’s Howrah.
Communal clashes broke out in Hooghly and Howrah for the duration of Ram Navami rallies. Several motors had been set on hearthplace on Thursday remaining week after agencies clashed in Howrah. Several stores had been ransacked for the duration of the violence even as some of cars, along with some police motors, had been set on hearthplace. Police needed to use tear fueloline shells to convey the scenario below control.
Police employees deployed withinside the place had been pelted with stones on Friday afternoon following which prohibitory orders had been imposed withinside the place and net offerings had been suspended.
The violent clashes have sparked a political slugfest among the ruling Trinamool and the BJP. Bengal authorities has suspended Internet offerings and positioned prohibitory orders in vicinity withinside the violence-hit districts.