Striking work these days is perilous in West Bengal, once a haven of strikers. Ignoring chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s diktat to work through the countrywide trade union strike, a man who dared to skip office had an ear chopped off – allegedly by goons of Trinamool Congress.

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Debipur gram panchayat executive assistant, Hazrat Omar, 58, lost his left ear in an attack on Thursday morning.
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