Three killed in anti-Waqf Act protests in West Bengal's Murshidabad

Kolkata: Three persons have been killed on Saturday following the violence over protests by a section of people from a particular religious community against the newly promulgated Waqf Amendment Act that has gripped several parts in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal for the last few days.

Of the three killed, two are father and son namely Hargobindo Das and Chandan Das, the residents of Dhulian at Samserganj in Murshidabad. It is alleged both of them were hacked to death by a section of the protesters.

Amit Malviya, BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, uploaded the bodies of the killed father and the son on his official X account and said it was because of the reluctance of the state administration acting against those resorting to such violence in the name of protests.

The third death is of an unidentified minor who was shot at Suti, also in Murshidabad, after getting trapped amid the violence.

The youth and his friend reportedly got trapped amid the violence at the Sajur Crossing at Suti on Friday and were shot. Both the minors were rushed to a local hospital and finally one of them died at the hospital on Saturday. (IANS)

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