The Bhangabera bridge on the border between Nandigram and Khejuri is where the first spark of violence erupted early January, leading to the divide between the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee and the Communist Party of India-Marxist.
IGP (law and order) Raj Kanojia told PTI in Kolkata that the police inspector was critically injured when a bullet hit him on his head while he was on duty near Bhangabera, close to Sonachura.
Even the police were yet to go to the trouble-torn Basulichak and Dinabhandupur villages although combat force personnel staged a route march at Narby Tekhali village.
His claim at the press conference that vested interests were trying to divide Hindus and Muslims in Nandigram drew an angry response from the BUPC.
Trouble began on Sunday morning when about 100-200 people from Khejuri tried to enter Nandigram in batches.
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The bombs were lobbed from Khejuri at around 10 pm by unidentified persons though there were no reports of any casualties, police said.
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Nandigram has been witnessing sporadic clashes between supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee, which is spearheading the agitation against land acquisition for a SEZ there.
Das, the Trinamool worker and a prominent representative of Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee was hit with sharp weapons by miscreants at Tengua bazar and died on the spot on Tuesday night.
Sources said they would gherao the Block Development Officer's office and local police station on January 25 to protest the bombings and to demand a thorough inquiry into the violence on January seven in which six persons were killed.
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In the villages of Chatingabari, Kamalpur, Dakapara and others in the troubled Nandigram block I intermittent gun shots rang out as panicked people were seen leaving their homes for safe places, eyewitnesses said.
East Midnapore district police Superintendent G Srinivas said the firing and hurling of bombs lasted for about an hour and stopped at around 12 noon.
The Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee's core committee member Sabuj Pradhan told reporters the body was found while the group's members were digging up land under Bhangabera bridge.
Nandigram block II has been the scene of recurring clashes over the issue of acquisition of land for a SEZ to be set up by Indonesia's Salim Group.
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