It was learnt from sources that the state government was paying compensation of around Rs 35,000 to families whose houses were damaged in the incident.
District police said inhabitants are wary of returning to their homes at Dhulagarh.
Delegations of BJP, CPI(M) and Congress were stopped from visiting the troubled areas of the district and police superintendent of Howrah (Rural) Sabyasachi Raman Mishra was transferred in the wake of violence in less than a fortnight of his appointment.
BJP has hit out at Banerjee over the Dhulagarh incident claiming that Hindus have been targeted in the violence.
“This is height of the politics of appeasement.
“I want to ask those intellectuals, who cried over 2002 riots in Gujarat and then intolerant India, that when are they going to Kolkata,” Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
From Agencies, Feature image courtesy indianexpress
