05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch
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FF Code : W.B./ MON (Aditi Kar)/<br />
District- Kolkata/ Feb-19/02/2008/ Sl.No.-112<br />
Victim(s) : Aftab Alam Ansari<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) CID Officials 2) STF<br />
Location : Kolkata, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong>, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh<br />
Date of incident : 27/12/2007 – 17/01/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Aftab Alam Ansari, aged 27 works in the Emergency Department of Calcutta Electric Supply<br />
corporation (C.E.S.C). The victim is the sole bread winner of the family. On 17 th December 2007 two<br />
unknown men came to the locality searching for a man named Altab. They talked with the mother of the<br />
victim and came to know that her son’s name was Aftab. The strangers came back on 22 nd December<br />
2007 also. On 27 th December 2007, these persons called Aftab over phone, having got his number and<br />
called to him Chiriamore. The victim went to the place and he was trapped by the CID. Aftab was<br />
dragged inside an ambassador car, and later detained in an apartment near VIP road. The officials<br />
subjected him to physical and mental torture, compelling him to confess that he was a terrorist trained in<br />
Bangladesh. Aftab denied and stated that he has valid identity proofs. Ayesha Begum, the mother of the<br />
victim lodged a missing diary in Chitpore Police Station on 28 th December 2007, and the next day she<br />
came to know from a newspaper report that her son was arrested by the CID. On 30 th December 2007<br />
she went to the CID Office at Bhavani Bhavan and knew that Aftab was to be produced before Chief JM<br />
Court, Lucknow on 2 nd January 2008. The victim was handed to the STF of Lucknow, who too tortured<br />
him at their quarter. He was sent to High Security Jail on 2 nd January 2008, from where he was taken to<br />
the Court. The case was dismissed on 14 th January 2008 and the victim was found innocent. Aftab was<br />
released on 16 th January 2008 from the jail, following which he returned to Kolkata. Written applications<br />
were sent to the CM demanding money, and Aftab received only Rs.30,000. At present he is under<br />
treatment.<br />
FF Code : W.B./MON(S. Mukhtar Ahamed)/<br />
District- North 24 Parganas/ July-14/07/08/ Sl.No.- 130<br />
Victim(s) : Asadul Mondal<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) BSF Jawans 2) OIC<br />
Location : Madhupur village, North 24 Parganas<br />
Date of incident : 02/07/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Asadul Mondal, aged 35 is a resident of Hariharpur village, falling under the jurisdiction of Bagdah<br />
Police Station. On 2 nd July 2008 the victim went to his field for cultivation with a bag of 22 kilograms of<br />
fertilizer, after registering his name at the gate of BSF. While working in the field a BSF Official of<br />
Madhupur Camp started beating him with the branch of a tree. Asadul fell down, and he was dragged to<br />
the camp holding the collar of his shirt. At the camp the victim was forced to lie down to the floor and<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
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Annual Report on Torture<br />
2007