{"id":11344,"date":"2026-04-12T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:16:43","slug":"130220471-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11344","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal polls: NIA detains Congress nominee, 3 others over Malda unrest | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130220481,imgsize-1091878,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"West Bengal polls: NIA detains Congress nominee, 3 others over Malda unrest\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MALDA: The NIA has detained Congress&#8217; Mothabari candidate Sayem Choudhury, gram panchayat member Golam Rabbani, and two others for questioning in connection with the April 1 violence in Mothabari, where seven judicial officers were confined for eight hours at the Kaliachak-II block office in Bengal&#8217;s Malda, reports Subhro Maitra.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/> Sources said Choudhury and Rabbani were among the crowd that gathered outside the office that morning. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> Rabbani, an ISF panchayat member, was reportedly seen addressing villagers, mostly women whose names had been deleted from the electoral roll.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> NIA, which took over the probe following a Supreme Court order, has already taken custody of 50 people earlier arrested by police.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/west-bengal-polls-nia-detains-congress-nominee-3-others-over-malda-unrest\/articleshow\/130220471.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALDA: The NIA has detained Congress&#8217; Mothabari candidate Sayem Choudhury, gram panchayat member Golam Rabbani,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,27736,723,719,720,721,27737,27738,27735,27734,722],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-congress-candidate-sayem-choudhury","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-judicial-officers-confined","tag-kaliachak-ii-block-office","tag-mothabari-violence","tag-nia-detention","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}