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FF Code : W.B. / MON (Murari Dey)
District – Hooghly / Feb-23/02/2008/ SL.NO- 69
Victim(s) : Bisakha Mondal
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Priyobroto Bakshi, OIC 2) Khokan Jana
Location : BDO, Singur
Date of incident : 08/07/2005
Case Details:
Victim Bisakha Mondal was born in Krishnanagar village of Nadia district. The family of the victim is very
poor. She was married to a Bangladeshi young man at the age of 13. Bisakha gave birth to a son. Bulen,
the husband of the victim deserted her and returned to Bangladesh, following which Bisakha admitted
her son in an orphanage home. She got a job in the Block development Office, Uluberia, and dwelled in
Singur staff quarters. She also brought back her son from the orphanage. On 8 th July 2005 Kokhan
Jana, a casual employee of BDO along with his wife assaulted the victim and her son. The victim
received no help from the BDO and hence approached Singur Police Station. A dairy was registered
and Bisakha was hospitalized. After a month the IO of the station threatened the victim to withdraw the
complaint and stated that he wouldn’t take any action against Kokhan. Bisakha visited various government
officials who put pressure upon the police station, but the officials advised the victim to withdraw the case.
Till date the police have not taken any action against the perpetrator for they are influential people.
FF Code : W.B. / MON (Susmita Roy Chowdhury)
District–South 24 Parganas / MAR-19.03.2008/ SL.NO- 147
Victim(s) : Biswanath Ghorami
Perpetrator(s) : 1)Gokul Chakraborty 2)Sambhu Sardar 3)Panchu Sardar 4)OIC
Location : Majlishpur, Falta
Date of incident : 15/03/2008
Case Details:
Victim Biswanath Ghorami, aged 46, is a farmer residing in Majlishpur village, and belongs to the
Scheduled Caste Community. The victim owns 51 acres of land, in which he practiced horticulture with
help of the Central Govt., having taken loan from a Gramin Bank. On 2 nd March 2008, Gokul Chakraborty,
and few other people barged into the field of Biswanath with weapons and cut down all the trees and
plants, ransacked the Green net house, and a room. Several species of plants were carried away.
Around 21 to 25 labourers, who were working in the field were also assaulted by the miscreants and
hailed with abuses. Though complaints were lodged at Falta Police Station, the police just registered the
case and never arrested the perpetrators. Biswanath sustained a loss of Rs.5,00,000. Every time the
victim returned from lodging a complaint at the police station, Gokul would come the next day with a
group of men and spoil the vegetation. He send written complaints to several administrative authorities,
particularly the SP, BDO, DIG, IG, DM but no fruitful result turned out. On 15 th March 2008 Gokul came
with 100 supporters of the ruling CPI(M), barged into the land of the victim, abducted him and subjected
Biswanath to brutal torture at Jagala village. Police arrived late at the place and rescued him from their
hands. Though the victim was hospitalized, the perpetrators were not arrested. The family members of
Biswajit approached the police, but the duty officer kept the complaint aside and till date they are not
interested in taking any action against the perpetrators.
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Annual Report on Torture
2007