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Mamata tape

BJP releases alleged Mamata tape asking to frame Central forces, SP, others in Sitalkuchi firing

| @indiablooms | Apr 17, 2021, at 12:23 am

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released an audio tape where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was purpotedly asking her party's candidate in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi assembly constituency to prevent the bodies of four killed in CISF firing from being claimed by their kins till there is a rally and FIRs filed by experienced lawyers. She was heard in the alleged tape saying that from the Central force commandants to Superintendent of Police and IC, all have to be framed in the case of firing. While the veracity of the tape is yet to be confirmed, the BJP claimed the CM was trying to foment communal trouble. The Trinamool Congress candidate there was heard admitting that those who died were their partymen. 

 

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