05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch
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medical facilities. On 3 rd April 2008 the prisoners were produced before the court and the magistrate was<br />
surprised on seeing the physical condition of the prisoners, and issued a show cause notice to the SP.<br />
Samir Sarkar, the Superintendent appeared before the Court on 4 th April 2008. The magistrate warned<br />
him to be careful in future. After this the victim was subjected to severe torture for bringing the incident of<br />
custodial torture into public knowledge. Now the victims are afraid to tell anything about their condition in<br />
the jail.<br />
FF Code : W.B./MON (Susmita Roy Chowdhury) /<br />
District-South 24 Parganas/ Jan-28/01/2008/Sl. No - 130<br />
Victim(s) : Tufan Das<br />
Perpetrator(s) : Police<br />
Location : Thakur Pukur PS, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
Date of incident : 14/01/2008<br />
Case Details:<br />
Victim Tufan Das, aged 24, is a resident of Bachar Para. He had a love affair with Kuheli Das of Ghari<br />
Beria for many years. The family members of Kuheli didn’t agree with this relationship, though Kuheli<br />
was an adult claiming herself 20 years of age. They decided to get married in the month of January<br />
2008. Accordingly Kuheli came from her house in a motor cycle and both got married on 10 th January<br />
2008. But on 12 th January 2008 Kuheli’s father forcibly took his daughter from the house of the victim and<br />
registered a false case against Tufan at Thakur Pukur Police Station. Thus six to seven policemen<br />
came to the house of Tufan on 14 th January 2008 and carried him to the station neither producing the<br />
arrest memo nor stating the reason for arrest to his family members. The officials also harassed the<br />
victim’s mother and sister. Tufan was produced before the Court the same day. On 25 th January 2008<br />
he was again produced before the court but he was denied bail.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
469<br />
Annual Report on Torture<br />
2007