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12 arrested for attacking monks
The Statesman
|January 14, 2024
West Bengal Police on Saturday said that 12 people were arrested for allegedly attacking three monks from Uttar Pradesh who were heading to the ongoing Gangasagar Mela in Sagar Islands, North 24-Parganas district, on the basis of a kidnapping rumour.
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Police sources said that the monks were attacked on Thursday night by a group of villagers in Kashipur, Purulia district, after rumours had spread that the victims were on the run after abducting a local teenage girl.
The seers, originally from Bareilly, first went to Puri in Odisha and from there they reached Purulia on Thursday afternoon.
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