A Trinamool Congress leader and his two local aides have been facing accusations of sexual assault and land grab in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal. While the two aides have been arrested, the leader, Sheikh Shahjahan, is absconding. Shiv Sahay Singh reports on Sandeshkhali villagers who narrate stories of a man who allegedly unleashed a reign of terror, and how an island close to the Sundarbans has become the centre of Trinamool-BJP politics
