Kolkata: A woman was allegedly beaten up and thrown off the roof of a single-storey under-construction house in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, police said on Saturday.

The incident that occurred in the Raydighi area on Friday triggered a political row with the BJP claiming that the woman was its activist and was "pushed off the house terrace by a Trinamool Congress' goon".

The ruling party dismissed the allegation, claiming that the BJP was "trying to politicise the incident that was the fallout of a tiff between two neighbours".

A preliminary investigation revealed that Mangla Halder had a scuffle with the members of another family over the rooftop construction under a state-sponsored project, a senior officer said.

"We are investigating the incident, and a search is underw

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