A court has ordered 14 days of police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and 6 days of police custody for Akramul Bagani, the main accused in the Kaliachak incident in Malda in West Bengal. Both were arrested for allegedly instigating the mob that gheraoed the BDO office. The protesters were demanding that names be included in the voters’ list and held the judicial officials inside the office without food or water for more than nine hours.

Earlier, a 40-member NIA team arrived in the Malda district to investigate the siege of seven judicial officials at the Kaliyachok-2 BDO office on Wednesday. The investigation also covers the subsequent attack on the officials while central forces were in the process of rescuing them. The NIA team reached the Mothabari police station and subsequently visited the BDO office.