Police officials check the car of BJP leader Shilbhadra Dutta after a bomb was hurled towards it. (Photo| ANI) 
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Bengal polls 2021: Bomb hurled on BJP candidate Shilbhadra Dutta's car in North 24 Parganas district

Dutta claimed that he was taking tea at a roadside stall on Kalyani Expressway at Rahara when someone threw the bomb which exploded a few metres away from his vehicle.

PTI

BARRACKPORE (WEST BENGAL): A country-made bomb was allegedly hurled at the vehicle of BJP candidate from Khardah assembly constituency, Shilbhadra Dutta, in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday evening, a police official said here.

However, no casualty was reported. Dutta claimed that he was taking tea at a roadside stall on Kalyani Expressway at Rahara when someone threw the bomb which exploded a few metres away from his vehicle.

The police official said that a DCP-level officer of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate went to the spot to investigate the incident. The BJP candidate, who left the Trinamool Congress a few months ago, said that he will file a complaint with the Election Commission about the incident.

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