05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch

FF Code : W.B./MON (Susmita Roy Choudhury)/
District- South 24 PGS/ Apr-30/04/2008/Sl. No.-157
Victim(s) : Nani Gopal Maity
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Anukul Chandra Bera 2) Chandan Mondal 3) Jaydeep
Banerjee, OIC 4)Sakshi Gopal Ghosh, IO 5)Ranajit Babu, Police
Location : Rudranagar, Sagar
Date of incident : 25/02/2008
Case Details:
Victim Nani Gopal Maity, aged 55, is the head master of Kamalpur Junior Basic School. He belongs to
the Scheduled Caste Community. On 25 th February 2008 while the victim was handling classes for 4 th
standard, two people namely Anukul Chandra Bera and Chandan Mondal entered the class room and
started demanding money from Nani. All of a sudden they got furious, dragged the victim catching hold
of his shirt, pushed him to the floor and started assaulting him. They stated that his son had borrowed
Rs.30,000 from them and wanted it returned. They beat Nani repeatedly and took away the money he
had. Due to this brutal act his forehead was bleeding. The students began to shout in fear, and the people
of the locality rushed for help. Nani immediately went to Sagar Police Station to lodge a complaint, before
which the perpetrators had filed a false complaint stating that the victim had assaulted them. The officials
of Sagar Police Station refused to accept the complaint but after investigation, finding the truth a case was
filed against the perpetrators. But the police were pressurizing Nani to compromise the case. On 27 th
February 2008 a village meeting was called to discuss on the issue and the perpetrators confessed their
guilt. After the meeting the victim was again facing threats. Finally a case was filed at ACJM Court of
Kakdip on 17 th March 2008. Though the court ordered for investigation, the Sagar Police took no
initiative.
FF Code : W.B. / MON (Amrita Rana)
District – Howrah / APR-30/04/2008/Sl.NO- 68
Victim(s) : 1) Narayan Dutta 2) Munmun Dutta
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Prasadi Bala Dutta 2) Pradip Dutta 3) Sanat Dutta 4) Anita Dutta
5) Tandra Dutta 6) Monika Rit 7) Chandra Dutta 8) Rita Adak
9) Ashok Kumar Khan, SI
Location : Bantra, Howrah
Date of incident : 27/11/2007, 16/04/2008
Case Details:
Victim Narayan Dutta, aged 48 and Munmun Dutta, aged 30 were married in 2006, and dwelled in
Joynarayan Babu Lane, falling under the jurisdiction of Bantra Police Station. The victim has two
brothers, and it was Narayan who looked after his deceased father’s business. After the victim’s
marriage with Munmun his brothers picked up a quarrel with Narayan and tried to evict him from the
house. The victim’s brothers jointly bought a house and didn’t give Narayan a share. The victim was
working as a salesman and stayed in the rented house. Right from the month of May 2007 to April 2008
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Annual Report on Torture
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