Was The Malda Riot Planned To Burn Down The Drug Mafia Records At The Kaliachak Police Station?

Poppy is used to make narcotics - opium, brown sugar and heroin. It is big business in West Bengal's ‪#‎Malda district, involving big money and big names, where a lakh-strong mob set fire to the local police station in ‪#‎Kaliachak block earlier this month.

As NDTV reported:

Poppy is allegedly grown on 12,000 bighas in Malda, sources say. The money involved is huge.

At Domaichak, barely 20 km from the Kaliachak police station, at least half-a-dozen tractors are destroying poppy grown over 25 ...

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