NCPCR asks Bengal DGP, chief secy to take care of five kids injured in Kaliachak incident

National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sent notice to Director General of Police (WB) Manoj Malviya and Chief Secretary of West Bengal H K Dwivedi to immediately take care of medical treatment of five children, who were grievously injured on Sunday, in Malda's Kaliachak.

Five children were injured while playing with crude bombs which they mistook as balls. All of them are being treated in the local government hospital. A BJP team met NCPCR chairman in New Delhi to submit a memorandum on the issue.

Priyank Kanungo, National Council for Protection of Children's Rights, “We have sent notice to Director General of Police and Chief Secretary of West Bengal to immediately take all measures for their treatment.”


Incident has created immense uproar in political circles. West Bengal is often referred to as bomb manufacturing Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury, BJP MLA, said today, “Only after I tweeted yesterday about the five children who were grievously injured in the incident, they were taken to the Malda Medical College & Hospital and treatment started.”

BJP Bengal Co-Incharge Amit Malviya, slamming Mamata Banerjee government, tweeted, “Mamata Banerjee should send a fact-finding team of TMC representatives to Malda’s Kaliachak, to investigate how five children were injured while playing, when they mistook crude bombs for balls… Imagine the tragic state of affairs in West Bengal. It can’t be allowed to continue.”

It is pertinent to mention, Banerjee had sent a fact-finding team to Prayagraj yesterday.