03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
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Case Details:<br />
FF Code : W.B./MON (Aditi Kar)/Kolkata/<br />
Oct-17/10/2007/Sl.No.-102<br />
Victim(s) : 1) Dhiraj Biswas 2) Debendra Lal Biswas<br />
3) Puspalata Biswas<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Arunabha Das, PO, Baishnavghata<br />
Investigation Centre; 2) Prankrishna<br />
Das, CPI; 3) Chandana Ghosh Dostidar,<br />
MLA; 4) Manik Kar, CPI(M)<br />
Location : Rabindra Palli; Baghajatin PS<br />
Date of incident : 13/08/2006 – 25/08/2006<br />
Victim Debedra Lal Biswas is married to victim Puspalata Biswas. One of his sons, victim<br />
Dhiraj Biswas, was a BSNL Officer and a Leucoderma patient, and was married to Radha<br />
Biswas. After Dhiraj and Radha Biswas’s marriage, there were petty quarrels between the two.<br />
Radha Biswas did not desire to live with her in-laws; one day, when Dhiraj Biswas was gone for<br />
some training, she took their daughter and went to her parents’ house.<br />
Afterwards, Dhiraj Biswas used to send money for Radha Biswas’s expenses and for their<br />
daughter’s education. However, Radha Biswas refused to return and to live with his family.<br />
When Dhiraj Biswas went to his in-laws’ house, he was beaten.<br />
Eventually, members of both families agreed to negotiate. They decided that, firstly, Dhiraj<br />
Biswas and Radha Biswas would stay with their own parents. Secondly, their daughter would<br />
stay with her mother, and Dhiraj Biswas would take her from her school every Friday and leave<br />
her at school on Monday.<br />
However, Dhiraj Biswas’s in-laws soon began trying to compel him to bring his daughter back<br />
to them. Radha Biswas’s family tried to influence Dhiraj Biswas through a local MLA, Chandana<br />
Ghosh Dostidar, but they did not succeed. Manik Kar, a local member of the CPI(M), also beat<br />
Dhiraj Biswas and made the same demand.<br />
On 13 August 2006, Dhiraj Biswas lodged a complaint at the Baisnabghata Investigating Centre.<br />
At 4.30pm, Radha Biswas and her family, along with many others, raided Dhiraj Biswas’s<br />
house and demanded the return of Dhiraj Biswas’s daughter. They demanded to know Dhiraj<br />
Biswas’s whereabouts, but his parents said that they did not know. Radha Biswas’s family then<br />
abused Puspalata Biswas by preventing her from taking her medication for a heart condition<br />
and from going to the toilet.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
109<br />
Annual <strong>Report</strong> on Torture<br />
2007