05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch

FF Code : W.B./ MON (Aditi Kar)/
District- Kolkata/ Mar-27/03/2008/Sl.No.-119
Victim(s) : 1) Mithu Ghosh 2) Sudhanshu Das 3) Pradip Das 4) Sahauddin
5) Subhash Roy 6) Sandip Bagchi 7) Arup Bhattacharjee
8) Sandip Banerjee 9) Arup Roy Chowdhury 10) Ajoy Mukherjee
11) Jolly Bagchi 12) Sukumar Chandra 13) Partha Pratim Roy
14) Nishikanta Jana 15) Kalipada Shaw 16) Debashish Mirda
17) Bidisha
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Mukul Mia, SI 2) Debashish Chakraborty, OIC 3) Police
Location : Sonachura, Nandigram
Date of incident : 12/02/2008
Case Details:
Victim Mithu Ghosh is an activist belonging to organizations called Shramik Sangram Committee
(SSC) and Krishak Committee. The victim was arrested during the early hours of 12 th February 2008
from Sonachura village, alleging him of inciting the people with ‘Maoist Propaganda’. Sudhanshu Das,
the organizer of Bhumi Uchched Protirodh Committee was also arrested the same day. The police
surreptitiously added several documents in the ‘seizure list’ prepared in the case, which Mithu never
distributed. The victim was regularly visiting Nandigram since the outburst of people’s struggle. He also
authored many literatures which appeared in the publications of organizations like SANDHIKSHAN,
SRAMIK ISTAHAAR, and KRISHAK PATH. The complaint against Mithu was submitted before the
ACJM,Haldia, which also contained the names of the above mentioned editors. A well known cultural
activist, Jolly Bagchi by name was also included in the complaint, alleging all of them to have involved
in conspiracy in waging war against the state. On 19 th March 2008 the arrested persons were produced
before the magistrate but the court rejected their bail petition. The members of SSC and that of other
organizations visited the CID, and DIG ventilating their grievances against the arbitrary police action.
FF Code : W.B./MON(GCS)/
District-Murshidabad/Jan-02/01/2007 /Sl No.-148
Victim(s) : 1) Mohidul Mondol 2) Josim Seikh
Perpetrator(s) : Bosiruddin Ahmed, SI
Location : Rajshahi Central Jail, Bangladesh
Date of incident : 06/09/2006
Case Details:
Victims Josim Seikh, Mohidur Mondol and Sapatullah Sarkar are fishermen residing at Murshidabad.
On 6 th Sep. 2006 the victims had gone fishing, during which they were arrested by the Bangladesh Rifle
(BDR) Camp, which was led by SI Bosiruddin Ahmed. They entered into the Indian territory and
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Annual Report on Torture
2007