Police on Monday seized 61 crude bombs from an abandoned house of a local Trinamool Congress leader in Raina area of Burdwan district. Superintendent of Police Kunal Agarwal said the police raided the abandoned house at Samaspur village on a tip off and found the bombs there.No one was arrested in this connection.
Sheikh Shanto, TMC working president of Raina-I block, owns the two-storyed house where none lives now. Shanto claimed a group of people “close to the police” had demanded a large sum of money from him a few days ago. The TMC leader alleged that the incident could be linked to that threat he got that he would have to pay the price if did not pay them money.