Police fired six rounds in the air and lobbed teargas shells to disperse GJMM & Jon Barla groups indulging in arson and stone-throwing in which two persons were injured during a bandh in the Terai-Dooars region in Jalpaiguri district today, official sources said. District Magistrate Smarki Mahapatra said, “Six rounds of bullets were fired in the air to disperse the mob. The situation was under control in most of the places. Tension was prevailing in a few places where police have gone to maintain peace”. Trouble started in Banarhat when GJMM and Barla Group trying to enforce the bandh were opposed by local businessmen..
Pro-bandh activists set ablaze nine shops at Banarhat and several shops at Chamurchi near Banarhat, police said. Police fired six rounds in the air and lobbed teargas squibs to disperse the mob at Banarhat, sources said. The bandh supporters also set fire to a truck at Red Bank tea garden near Banarhat. In Odlabari, cars and other vehicles were damaged in stone throwing by the bandh supporters.
Two persons were injured in the stone-throwing at Odlabari market, police said. A large contingent of police had rushed to the spot to control the situation, sources added. An indefinite bandh has been called in the Terai-Dooars region by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) . GJMM has demanded inclusion of several mouzas (local land revenue areas) in the proposed Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) from Terai and Dooars regions of northern West Bengal.
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