Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised questions about the origin of a cache of arms, including foreign-made revolvers, seized by the CBI in Sandeshkhali, suggesting that the central agencies might have brought them.

"You send the NIA, CBI, NSG, and other agencies as if a war is happening, even when a chocolate bomb explodes. And it was done without informing the state police. No one knows what has been found, where it came from, or how it came. It is possible that they have taken these in their vehicle and showed them. Because no evidence is available that he was there,” Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday.

She further claimed that bombs were found inside the house of a BJP leader in Sandeshkhali and added, 'He thinks that by hurling bombs and offering jobs he can win elections”.

The CBI seized arms and ammunition, including three foreign-made revolvers and one foreign-made pistol, one Indian revolver, one Colt official issue police revolver, one country-made pistol and several bullets and magazines, during searches at Sandeshkhali on Friday.

The raids were in connection with a January attack on an Enforcement Directorate team by a mob allegedly instigated by now-suspended Trinamool leader Shajahan Sheikh.

Along with the CBI, a bomb detection squad, the National Security Guard (NSG), the central paramilitary forces and the West Bengal Police were part of the searches.

Following the arms recovery, Trinamool alleged that the BJP was orchestrating a plot to discredit the state during the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.

"We don’t know what has been recovered or not. Whatever the CBI is saying, we doubt it. The matter should be probed properly. The BJP is using central agencies to malign,” Trinamool state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said.

Earlier today, the TMC lodged a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal stating that the CBI had "deliberately carried out an unscrupulous" raid at an "empty location" at Sandeshkhali during the second phase of voting.

The party, in its complaint, also doubted "there is no way of knowing with certainty as to whether these weapons were indeed recovered during the search or whether they were surreptitiously planted by the CBI or NSG".

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