Two men belonging to an outfit called Sanatani Ekta Manch were arrested in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district for pasting a Pakistani flag in a public place allegedly to “create communal unrest” in the area.
On the night of 30 April, police officers of the Gopalnagar Police Station found a Pakistani flag pasted on the walls of the public washroom next to Akaipur Railway Station in the Bongaon sub-division of North 24 Parganas district.
According to the police, their investigation revealed that flag was pasted by Chandan Malakar (30) and Progyajit Mondal (45), active members of Sanatani Ekta Manch.
The SI at Bongaon Police Station, Asim Pal, said the identity of the people involved was revealed through a social media post put up by them.
The accused have allegedly confessed that besides pasting the flag, they planned to write, “Hindustan Murdabad” and “Pakistan Zindabad” as an attempt to create communal disturbance in the area.
The Bongaon police wrote on X that they will “spare no efforts to bring to book those who are hatching conspiracies to trigger communal unrest”.
The alleged conspiracy instigate violence comes at a time when there are communal tensions in parts of West Bengal following the Pahalgam terror attack and the recent violence in Murshidabad.
The Quint reported that a gyenacologist in Kolkata refused to treat a pregnant Muslim woman and even told her that “Hindus should kill your husband”.
This story was originally published in thequint.com.
