Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-02-08 23:03
The
state's Inspector General Surajit Kar Purkayastha says police "had to open
fire for self-defense" after nine officers were injured. Darjeeling
Superintendent of Police D.P. Singh says the officers were attacked Tuesday
after charging with sticks at about 500 supporters of the Gorkha party, who had
defied a ban to gather for a political march in Jalpaiguri district.
The area's
ethnic Nepalese, known as Gorkhas, have been agitating since the 1980s for a
separate Gorkhaland state. The Gorkha Janmukti Mukti Morcha political party was
established in 2007.
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