A police station in Malda district was set on fire

The incident has taken place four months before assembly elections are scheduled to be held in West Bengal. Barely three months after the lynching of a man in Dadri led to the issue of tensions between religious communities hitting the headlines, West Bengal is now seeing communal tension. On 3 January, a police station in the state's Malda district was set on fire after a large Muslim protest rally turned violent. Following the clashes, ten persons have been arrested were produced before a local court, Tuesday and were remanded to police custody Idara-e-Shariya, which organised the rally after which the police station was burned, claimed that 'anti-social' elements torched the building, according The protest was held to condemn remarks by an Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari, in which he allegedly made insulting comments about Prophet Mohammed An eyewitness said that midway during the protest, a section of the crowd broke away from the rally and attacked the police On Wednesday, a BJP delegation led by Shamik Bhattacharya, its lone MLA in West Bengal Assembly, was not allowed to visit Kaliachak village, about 30 km from here, which had witnessed violence on Sunday. A 25-member delegation led by Bhattacharya was detained by the police  nd taken to the local police station. But they were released in about ten minutes Bhattacharya told reporters that they wanted to visit the village to know about the exact reason of the Sunday's incident but was not allowed to go.