BJP leader shot dead in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman
Kolkata (PTI): A leader of the BJP was allegedly shot dead in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday evening, police said.
Raju Jha, who was a Durgapur-based businessman, was on the way to Kolkata when he was attacked outside a sweet shop in Amra in Shaktigarh police station area, they said.
Two persons arrived in a car when Jha was waiting in his SUV outside the shop. While one of the accused broke the window glass of Jha’s car with a rod, the other one started firing at him, police said.
Several rounds were fired, killing Jha at the spot and injuring two other persons who were accompanying him, they said.
Jha, who was in the hotel business, had joined the BJP ahead of the last Assembly elections.
He was also arrested in a coal smuggling case.
Following the incident, the accused fled the spot. The injured persons were undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said.
Senior police officers visited the spot where the incident happened.
Police said an investigation was started.
West Bengal | BJP leader Raju Jha was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Shaktigarh of Purba Bardhaman
— ANI (@ANI) April 1, 2023
It is an unfortunate incident and an investigation is being done: Kamanasish Sen, SP Purba Bardhaman pic.twitter.com/uYnrnVRZ7w
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Tirupati laddu row: Samples of Ayodhya Ram temple 'prasad' sent for testing
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The action was taken following a complaint lodged through the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), Assistant Food Commissioner Manik Chand Singh said.
Singh said the samples were procured from Haiderganj, where the cardamom seed offerings are prepared and sent to the Jhansi State Laboratory for comprehensive testing and evaluation.
Prakash Gupta, the officer in charge of the Ram Temple trust, revealed that on average, around 80,000 packets of cardamom seeds are distributed daily as a sacred offering.
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