05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch
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FF Code : W.B. / MON (Murari Dey)<br />
District – Hooghly / APR - 16.04.2008/ SL.NO – 77<br />
Victim(s) : Santanu Sarkar<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Bijoy Das 2) Bama Charan Mondal 3) Hakim Mondal<br />
4) Kesab Das 5) Kulu Das 6) Jhantu Das 7) Soumitra Banerjee<br />
8) Pranab Malik 9) Police<br />
Location : Itachuna, Hooghly<br />
Date of incident : 12/04/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Santanu Sarkar, aged 36, is a social reformer, residing in Khanan village, falling under the<br />
jurisdiction of Pandua Police Station. For the past one and a half years the victim was fighting for the<br />
miserable health condition of the people in the locality. He also ran a non-political organization namely<br />
‘Janachetana Mancha’ which worked for the people to uphold their fundamental rights. On 12 th April<br />
2008 while Santanu was taking tea in a shop at Itachuna village, few people including the above<br />
mentioned perpetrators leaped upon the victim and beat him up brutally using bamboo sticks and iron<br />
rod. Santanu fell unconscious and he was hospitalized by the local people. At night the people of the<br />
locality went to Pandua Police Station for filing a case against the perpetrators, but the OIC denied<br />
receiving the written complaint given by the victim with his signature. Finally the people resorted to protest<br />
following which the case was registered. Eight names were mentioned in the complaint letter, but till date<br />
the police haven’t taken any actions against them for they were supporters of the ruling CPI(M) Party.<br />
The victim received treatment for three days. Earlier Santanu was arrested on 13 th September 2007<br />
and detained along with a tribal woman for six hours in a police van. Thus the victim is always a target<br />
for the police.<br />
FF Code : W.B. /MON (Tanushree Chakraborty)/<br />
District-Kolkata / July-16/07/2008/SL NO-128<br />
Victim(s) : Subrata Banerjee<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Samir Sarkar, SP 2) Singh, Police<br />
Location : Presidency Central Correctional Home, Alipore, Kolkata<br />
Date of incident : 31/03/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Subrata Banerjee, aged 22, is an under trial prisoner at Presidency Central Correctional Home,<br />
Alipore, in connection to a case which is pending in the Court of City Session Judge (Fast Track, IV<br />
Court), Kolkata. On 31 st March 2008 the victim was brutally beaten up by the Superintendent of the<br />
Correctional Home. Subrata and many other prisoners in the home were tortured with blades, sticks<br />
and rods. Subrata sustained severe injuries on his back and right hand. They were also threatened at<br />
gun point. The advocates of the victims alleged about the unhygienic and insufficient food and lack of<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
468<br />
Annual Report on Torture<br />
2007