05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch

FF Code : W.B. / MON (Susmita Roy Chowdhury)
District –South 24parganas / APR-30/04/2008/Sl.NO- 154
Victim(s) : Nilima Giri
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Somnath Das, OIC 2) Chittaranjan Das, SI 3) Alok Majhi, SI
4) Sadananda Sau 5) Amal Chandra Sau 6) Manoranjan Sau
7) Krishna Mohan Panda 8) Bimal Panda 9) Sankar Sau
10) Ananda Sau 11) Guna Sindhu Sau 12) Abanti Sau
Location : Srindharnagar, West Bengal
Date of incident : 07/04/2008
Case Details:
Sridharnagar village falls under Bada area of Sunderban, where there is no source of cultivation
throughout the year. Hence the resident of the village went outside in search of job. The Sardars are rich
people who assured these poor villagers to get job on contract. Thus 13 poor people of the village
worked for few days in Bhola Sankar Alu Store; but ultimately they were ditched by the Sardars, who
refused to pay the salary. A meeting was called to talk on the issue at the village level, but the Sardars
lodged a complaint at Pathapratima Police Station, stating wrongful restraint, criminal intimidation, cheating
and dishonesty. The victims hid themselves when they knew that police were searching for them. On 7 th
April 2008 and 8 th April 2008 the OIC and SI of the station entered the house of 35 year old Nilima Giri,
while the male members were away from home. They dragged her from the bed, pulled her sari, and
struck her with their fists. The police didn’t spare the children also. Out of fear nobody dared to protest.
The whole house was damaged. After this incident Nilima send a complaint to the SDPO, CI and OIC of
Patharpratima Police Station. A case was also filed in the ACJM Court stating the criminal offences of the
police.
FF Code : W.B. / MON (Julfikar Ali)
District – Murshidabad / APR-25/04/2008/Sl.NO- 192
Victim(s) : 1) Nimai Mondal 2) Nirmala Mondal
Perpetrator(s) : 1) PC 2) OIC
Location : Char Rajnagar, Raninagar
Date of incident : 05/04/2008
Case Details:
Victim Nimai Mondal, aged 40, is a farmer residing in Char Rajnagar village, falling under the jurisdiction
of Raninagar Police Station. On 5 th April 2008, the victim was working in his field, and during that time a
BSF official came near him, asking him to vacate the place, for there was a nuisance in the locality.
Nimai denied going stating that he had some urgent work. The official grew angry at this and started
dragging him. When the victim protested the official was enraged and beat up Nimai brutally. Nirmala
Mondal, W/o Nimai rushed for help hearing her husband shout. The official pushed her down and beat
her with the butt of the pistol. He also abused the victims with filthy words. Nimai was kicked on his chest
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Annual Report on Torture
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