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A video is going viral on social media where an Assistant Police Commissioner was brutally trashed by BJP workers on Tuesday in West Bengal. The incident was recorded in camera, but no arrest has been made so far, as per reports.
BJP supporters were marching to the West Bengal Secretariat to protest corruption issues, clashed with police.
Huge police contingent deployed stopped the marching BJP supporters. The police resorted to baton charging and water-cannons to disperse the agitated BJP supporters, who retaliated with brickbats and bamboo poles. Finally, the police resorted to firing of teargas shells to dispel the mob.
In the battleground a police van was torched, a BJP councilor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and several others, including both BJP supporters and police personnel, were injured. A police kiosk there was also vandalised by the BJP supporters.
However, BJP state President Sukanta Majumdar alleged that the PCR van was set on fire by the police only and blame put on his party supporters. Senior city officials rubbished his claims.