Kolkata: Normalcy was restored in violence-hit Bhatpara in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, as shops opened and people have eventually come out of their homes.
Although shops were closed an atmosphere of panic and apprehension prevailed in the area under the Barrackpore industrial belt, normalcy has been to a large extent been restored.
A number of police pickets have been set up at important crossings near Ghoshpara and Kalyani highway to prevent outsiders from entering the area. Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel carried on with their area domination work.
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A three-member delegation, comprising Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs - S.S. Ahluwalia, Satya Pal Singh and Vishnu Dayal Ram, visited the house of the two deceased - Rambabu Shaw and Dharambir Shaw - in Bhatpara on Saturday afternoon.
Fresh tension erupted shortly after the delegation left the area as a group of locals agitated against the police accusing them of inaction and pelted stones at the personnel on duty.
Police resorted to a baton charge on two occasions to disperse the mob resulting in one person sustaining a head injury.
The region, which falls under the Barrackpore parliamentary constituency, has been tense since the election results were announced on May 23.
Former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Bhatpara Arjun Singh, who defected to the BJP just before the elections, won the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat, while his son Pawan Singh won the Assembly by-election.
Protesting against the police brutality, BJP workers led by local MP Arjun Singh, held a demonstration outside the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate on Friday.
