Addressing a press conference, senior BJP leader Sambit Patra said West Bengal has witnessed 26 political killings in a week.
Security has been up in Rampurhat to ensure that no untoward incident takes place, especially because of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to the area.
The incident occurred at around 5 pm on Tikli-Gairatpur Bas village road when van collided with a pole, overturned and caught fire and Sunny and Khanna, were trapped in the car and charred to death, police said.
A Haryana man died of burn injuries after four men at Tikri border, farmers' protest site, sprinkled inflammable material over him and set him afire.
More than a week after he was allegedly abducted from Chennai for ransom, a leading seaman of Indian Navy was burnt alive in a forest of Palghar district, police on Saturday.
As per the preliminary information, when he was returning from vacation on January 30, three men abducted him at gun point outside Chennai Airport around 9 pm and demanded ransom of Rs 10 lakh.
A three-year-old girl was charred to death and three of her family members were seriously injured in a fire that broke out in a haystack in the backyard of their house in Odisha's Kendrapara district early on Friday, police said.
A 38-year-old software engineer was tied to chair and burnt alive by his in-laws on suspicion of performing black magic in Hyderabad. The incident happened on the outskirts of Balwanthapur village in the Jagtyala district of Telangana.
Along with his tweet attacking the state government, Gandhi tagged a media report which claimed that the incident of burning alive a young woman in Vaishali was kept under wraps as elections were on.
A 22-year-old Dalit youth working as a salesman at a liquor vend was allegedly burnt alive in Alwar district of Rajasthan. According to the police, the man was burnt to death after he demanded his salary dues of five months.
Sanjay Shinde, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was charred to death after his car caught fire at Mumbai-Agra highway in Maharashtra. The victim Shinde was a taluka unit vice president of the party.
Sanjay Shinde, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was charred to death after his car caught fire at Mumbai-Agra highway in Maharashtra. The victim Shinde was a taluka unit vice president of the party.
In a gruesome act, Ex-Army personnel's wife was allegedly burnt alive after scuffle between children in Agra. However, police has arrested two accused.
Family members of Karauli temple priest, who was burnt alive over land dispute, staged protest. They are demanding that all accused should be arrested.
An 18-year-old girl was burnt alive in a village of Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur district following a dispute between two families, police said on Tuesday.
A 19-year-old woman and her lover were allegedly burnt to death by her family members in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district in a suspected case of honour killing, police said on Thursday.
A 15-year-old class 10 girl was burnt alive after she became the victim of a dispute between two families in Thiruvennainallur near Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu. The girl succumbed a day after she was being treated.
A 15-year old girl died on Monday after being set ablaze near Villupuram allegedly by two men over long-standing enmity with her family and the duo arrested as the ghastly incident triggered an outrage.
A van containing flammable chemicals hit a tree and caught fire
Three persons were charred to death when a van collided head-on with a truck on the Unnao-Hardoi highway on Sunday night.
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