[ FRIDAY, APRIL 06, 2007 07:57:13 PM]Nandigram: Fresh violence erupted here on Thursday as CPI-M and Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee supporters exchanged fire and hurled bombs at Paharganj, an area between Nandigram Block-I and Khejuri.
East Midnapore Superintendent of Police G A Srinivas told PTI that both sides used country made guns and bombs for an hour since noon at Paharganj.
None was injured.
The police intervened and restored order, he said, but tension was running high.
Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Core Committee member, Abu Taher alleged that the CPI-M suppporters fired 15 rounds and threw a dozen bombs from their stronghold at Khejuri.
He claimed that a number of CPI-M supporters visited the Committee office this morning, saying they wanted to join the committee as their party had yesterday held a meeting at Kunjapur, where it was proposed to collect signatures in favour of land acquisition. This led to the violence, he added.
Yesterday, the Committee had complained to the Nandigram police station that five of its members were assaulted by CPI-M supporters at Tekhali bazar of whom three had to be admitted to the Nandigram primary health centre.
Fourteen people were killed in police firing at Nandigram on March 14, as people resisted the police from entering the villages.
Earlier, seven people were killed on January seven after violence broke out on rumours that land would be acquired for a SEZ. The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government has formally announced that the SEZ would not be set up in Nandigram and shifted elsewhere in the district.
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