Police Allowed Rioters To Continue With This Mayhem: CPI(M) Md Salim Speaking on Murshidabad violence, CPI (M) leader Mohammed Salim on April 14 said that police allowed the rioters to continue with this mayhem. "After a lot of trouble, I could enter this place, the ground zero, where all the violence took place and people were killed. Police were not present. Despite repeated requests from the villagers, the police allowed the rioters to continue with this mayhem. The whole village was burned, destructed and looted, and there was no police or fire brigade. The villagers themselves doused the fire...," said Mohammed Salim.