03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
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Case Details:<br />
FF Code : W.B./MON(Aditi Kar)/<br />
Kolkata/July- 25/07/2007/<br />
Sl.No.-60<br />
Victim(s) : Dipankar Pal<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Aziz Mondal, SI;<br />
2) POs<br />
Location : Muchipara PS, Kolkata,<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
Date of incident : 09/07/2007 – 11/07/2007<br />
Victim Dipankar Pal, age 28, is originally from Assam. He worked for more than two years at a<br />
gold workshop owned by Ashim Pal in the Bowbazar area of Kolkata. The workshop where he<br />
worked was near the workshop of Dipak Karmakar. Dipak Karmakar accused one of his<br />
employees, Biplap Chatterjee from Assam, of stealing gold.<br />
On 9 July 2007 at 11.45pm, Dipak Karmakar and one other person approached Dipankar Pal<br />
near his workplace and took him forcibly to the Duty Officer’s room at Muchipara PS before<br />
leaving.<br />
At 3.30pm, SI Abdul Aziz Mondal told Dipankar Pal that the Assam Police had arrested Biplab<br />
Chatterjee, who had confessed that Dipankar Pal was involved with him in disposing of the stolen<br />
gold. Dipankar Pal denied the accusation, but the SI did not believe him. Dipankar Pal requested<br />
repeatedly to contact his family, but the SI refused.<br />
On 10 July 2007, a PC helped Dipankar Pal to contact his family.<br />
Dipankar Pal’s father Dilip Pal came to the station and requested his son’s release. The SI told<br />
him to return the next day. Meanwhile, Dipankar Pal was detained in the lock-up and was not<br />
produced before a court.<br />
On 11 July 2007, Dipankar Pal paid the SI Rs. 80 as a fine, and the SI released him from lockup.<br />
The SI collected his signature on a paper and told other officers to book Dipankar Pal in a<br />
petty case. The SI told Dipankar Pal to return after two days.<br />
On 13 July 2007, the SI asked Dipankar Pal to bring Biplap Chatterjee to the station in order to<br />
prove his own innocence, promising to reimburse Dipankar Pal’s Rs. 80 if he did so. Dipankar<br />
Pal protested that he could not do so.<br />
On leaving the station, Dipankar Pal visited the Secretary of the Gold Manufacturers’ Association<br />
in Bowbazar, Kolkata, and explained the incidents in detail. Both of them went to the Muchipara<br />
PS. There, the Secretary conversed privately with the SI. The SI insisted again that Dipankar<br />
Pal appear at the station on 15 July 2007, but the Secretary advised Dipankar Pal not to comply.<br />
Dipankar Pal lives in fear, and has been unable to return to work out of fear of police harassment.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
57<br />
Annual <strong>Report</strong> on Torture<br />
2007