Kolkata: The situation in West Bengal's Bhangar, which was on the boil last week due to violent protests over the "forcible land acquisition" for a power grid project, became tense again on Thursday as villagers protested the arrest of a woman CPI-ML Red Star leader.

On Wednesday, the state government handed over the Bhangar violence case to the CID, which the same evening, arrested Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist Red Star leader Sarmishta Choudhury allegedly in connection with the violence which claimed two lives last week.