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once again began torturing her in a closed room. The tape recorder was tuned high to suppress her<br />
shout of cry. Srimanta also abused his mother-in-law, who was witnessing all these things. Finally the<br />
victim returned to her father’s house the very next day. Though the village elders talked with Srimanta to<br />
take his wife back it turned to deaf ears. On 23 rd March 2008 Prosanta went to Murshidabad Police<br />
Station, but the ASI refused to accept the complaint, following which a written complaint was sent to the<br />
SP on 24 th March 2008. Now Priti is mentally upset and not in her right sense.<br />
FF Code : W.B./ MON (Amrita Rana)/<br />
District- Howrah/ March-07/03/2008/Sl.No.-60<br />
Victim(s) : Puja Barma<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Mohan Choudhury 2) Police<br />
Location : Bally, Howrah<br />
Date of incident : 20/01/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Puja Barma, aged 12, D/o Ramnath Barma is a resident of Rajen Seth Lane, falling within the<br />
jurisdiction of Bally Police Station. Ramnath Sharma is residing as a tenant in the house of Mohan<br />
Choudhury for the past two and a half years. On 20 th January 2008 the younger daughter of Ramnath,<br />
namely Puja went to toilet. Then suddenly Mohan pulled her into his room, tied her mouth and raped her.<br />
After a long time her parents found her tied up in Mohan’s room. The same night they went to Bally<br />
Police Station for filing a complaint but the officials denied registering the same. After repeated requests<br />
finally a general diary entry was registered on 22 nd January 2008. After this the family of the victim was<br />
getting threats from Mohan. 15 days later police took initiative for Puja’s medical examination, the copy<br />
of which was not handed over to the victim. Mohan was charged intentionally under an attempt to murder<br />
case so as to lighten the gravity of the offense. Till date the accused has not been arrested and no initiative<br />
has been taken for proper investigation.<br />
FF Code : W.B. /MON (Tanushree Chakraborty)/<br />
District-Kolkata/ July-31/07/2008/Sl NO-129<br />
Victim(s) : 1) Raju Saha 2) Uttam Sardar<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Raju Paswan 2) Niraj Gupta 3) Rajesh Prajapati<br />
2) Jail Superintendent 3) Jail Warden 4) Police Escort<br />
Location : Fort William, Kolkata<br />
Date of incident : 12/06/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Raju Saha, aged 26, is an under trial prisoner, whose case is pending in the Court of Ld. Additional<br />
district and Sessions’ Judge (Fast Track). The victim is an accused in the said case. On 12 th June<br />
2008 the victim was not produced in the court by the police on the ground that he was assaulted by three<br />
under trial prisoners, namely Raju Paswan, Niraj Gupta and Rajesh Prajapati. Raju Sahu was cut with<br />
a razor inside the prison van near Fort William, Kolkata, while they were going to the court. The victim<br />
sustained severe blood injury and was immediately admitted in the hospital. Except for the victim the<br />
other three were produced before the court. It was observed that the incident happened as a result of the<br />
dereliction of the duty of jail authority. The Superintendent of Presidency Central Correctional Home<br />
submitted a report stating the negligence of the police escort in this matter.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
428<br />
Annual Report on Torture<br />
2007