Four people were detained for waving the Palestinian
flag during the Pakistan-Bangladesh World Cup cricket match at Eden Gardens
stadium on Tuesday, said police.
Two of them are residents of Jharkhand, while the
other two are from Kolkata’s Ekbalpore and neighbouring Howrah, stated a senior
police officer.
“We have detained two of them for waving the
Palestinian flag near gate number 6 and the other two at Block G1. We are
trying to find out their motive,” informed the IPS officer.
The four were detained by law enforcers from Maidan
police station and they were being questioned, he added.
“Policemen posted there at first could not understand
what the protesters were up to. Then they waved the flag of Palestine and were
detained. They, however, did not raise any slogan,” he elaborated.
Sources in the Kolkata Police said the initial probe
found out that the four people, who are in their mid-twenties, were protesting
the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and chose the international match for
their stir.
PTI
