Five more accused, including three women, have been arrested in the daylight attack with bombs on a police team during their raid for the recovery of bombs from Choumandalpur village at Parui in Birbhum. Thus the total number of arrest in the case rose to 10.
On Saturday night, three women and two men were caught during raids at Choumandalpur village and were produced before the additional chief judicial magistrate at the Suri court.
Two male accused were remanded in six days’ police custody following a prayer from the police while the women in judicial custody for two weeks.
The police faced criticism for not seeking the custody to the court of any of the five it arrested earlier. During the day IGP (western zone) S.N. Gupta visited injured officer-in-charge of the Parui police station Prasenjit Dutta at Suri Hospital.