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FF Code : WB/MON (Amrita Rana)/
District–Howrah/APR-11.04.2008/SL NO-64
Victim(s) : Ashes Khatua
Perpetrator(s) : 1) OIC 2) Arjun Maity 3) Bapi Kajri 4) Khakon Misra
5) Ganesh Mondal 6) Kartik Majhi 7) CPI(M) members
Location : Nandigram, East Midnapore
Date of incident : 27/03/2008
Case Details:
Victim Ashes Khatua, aged 42, is a resident of Kalicharanpur village, falling within the jurisdiction of
Nandigram Police Station. The victim is a supporter of Trinamul Congress, the party in opposition to the
ruling party in West Bengal. Ashes ran a public telephone booth in the area to earn his livelihood. On 27 th
March 2007 the above mentioned perpetrators, belonging to the CPI(M) blocked the way of the victim
and beat him with wooden sticks and iron rods, thereby fracturing his left arm. Ashes went to Nandigram
Police Station where the OIC just filed a general diary entry and chased him away from the station. The
OIC was found talking with the perpetrators in his room, in a favourable mood. The police didn’t arrange
for medical examination, and the victim got himself admitted in a local hospital. He was referred to
SSKM Hospital where his left arm was operated. Ashes was discharged on 9 th April 2008. The police
didn’t take any legal action against the accused persons and the perpetrators are often threatening the
victim.
FF Code : W.B./MON(Susmita Roy Choudhury)/
Distrcict-South 24 Parganas/Feb-22/02/2008/ Sl.No.-140
Victim(s) : 1) Asima Paria 2) Prabhas Paria
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Nani Paria 2) Sabita Paria 3) Asit Basu, Police
4) Ranjit Munshi, Police 5) amitava Kumar, Police
Location : South Mokam Bera, Basanti
Date of incident : 10/02/2008
Case Details:
Victim Asima Paria, aged 20, D/o Prabhas Paria is a resident of South Mokam Bera. A relative of the
victim, Nani Paria by name had borrowed Rs.6500 from her father and failed to return it even after a
lapse of many months. On 10 th February 2008 Nani Paria came to Asima’s house and threatened not
to demand the money. He also attempted to outrage her modesty by undressing her. He fled from the
place hearing the neighbours rush for help. Asima and her father went to lodge a complaint at Basanti
Police Station the same day. On 12 th February 2008 the victim was examined by a doctor, following
which she was threatened to withdraw the complaint. The same day the victim went to Basanti Police
Station along with her father and got another complaint registered. After these things the police began to
compel Asima to compromise the case and the OIC stated that the allegations are not serious in nature.
They ultimately washed their hands by just filing a petty case against Nani and didn’t arrest him. On 18 th
February 2008 the victim send a written complaint to the SP, and seeing that no help turned out from the
police, a case was filed at Alipore Chief Judicial Magistrate court on 20 th February 2008.
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Annual Report on Torture
2007