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Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate for the upcoming Nandigram Assembly bypoll in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district, has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking urgent interim protection against coercive action in five other cases registered against him during the 2007 anti-land acquisition movement. Pradhan, who was arrested late last week …

In a dramatic turn of events ahead of the October 6 assembly by-elections in West Bengal, Congress candidate Milan Pradhan was arrested by police on Friday in connection with a 19-year-old murder case dating back to the 2007 Nandigram anti-land acquisition movement. The police action unfolded merely hours after former …