Almost 72 hours have elapsed since a massive explosion on Friday night took down a partly built two-storey house and caused three deaths and several injuries at Bhupatinagar village in East Midnapore district but neither the Superintendent of Police nor the district forensic team have visited the area, locals on Monday rued.
This even after the Bengal Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order an NIA investigation into the case.
With the incident giving further impetus to the raging constroversy over the deteriorating law and order situation in the State that has seen more than a dozen people including children falling to bomb blasts and gun fights in the past one month the BJP and the ruling Trinamool cadres clashed in the village after the former went to register their protests in the area.
“Neither the SP has come nor a forensic team has been sent to the area … this shows complancy of the administration … the men who died in the blast were all TMC men who were manufacturing bombs,” said a local BJP leader adding the local people have been forced to keep their mouths shut.
The impact of the blas was so much that the entire housed caved in and two craters were created on the floor, sources said adding a big stockpile of bombs that had been kept in the house of local TMC leader Rafkumar Manna had gone off leading to his death. Two more persons allegedly making bombs too perished in the blast.
Curiously however the dead bodies of the victims were recovered in a paddy field next morning about a mile away from the spot leading to strong suggestions that their colleagues were trying to remove the corpses in order to escape political embarrassment.
The BJP workers who went to Bhupatinagar on Monday were literally beaten away by the alleged TMC goons and the police present at the site had a hard time to rescue the saffron men to safety, sources said.
“We will wait for some more time and then start a massive campaign if the police do not take action and arrest the other culprites in the case,” said Adhikari.