03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
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Agarwal lodged several complaints with the New Market PS (General Diaries Entries: G.D.E.<br />
No.-1900 dated 21-05-2005; G.D.E. No.-712 dated 08-<strong>03</strong>-2006; G.D.E. No.-2544 dated 26-08-<br />
2006; G.D.E. No-1259 dated 14-11-2006). However, the police were unwilling to take any steps<br />
to address those complaints.<br />
Agarwal then filed a complaint at the Court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kolkata, under s.<br />
156(2) Cr. P.C. and ss. 406, 498A, 511, and 534 IPC (cruelty, criminal breach of trust, etc.). No<br />
action was taken.<br />
M. Sarkar, the female IO of the New Market PS, stated that she could not deal with Pista Devi<br />
Agarwal’s case due to her busy schedule.<br />
FF Code : W.B./ MON (Sabitabrata Ghole)/<br />
Howrah/ May-29/05/2007/Sl.No.-31<br />
Victim(s) : 1) Prabhat Mallick; 2) Dipak Mallick; 3) Ashish<br />
Mallick; 4) Mina Mallick; 5) other family<br />
members<br />
Perpetrator(s) : 1) M. Majhi, ASI; 2) POs<br />
Location : Liluah PS<br />
Date of incident : 23/<strong>03</strong>/2007 – 26/04/2007<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />
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Case Details:<br />
Victim Prabhat Mallick and his family (the other victims) ran a grocery shop.<br />
In March 2001, a group of miscreants (including Gopal Bose, Hira Tiwary, Manik Bose, and<br />
Nilratan Bose) demanded that the Mallick family let them establish a club room on their land.<br />
When the family refused, the miscreants harassed and threatened them. When the family filed<br />
a complaint at the Howrah Court, the police did nothing.<br />
On 23 March 2001, the miscreants ransacked the Mallick family’s grocery shop.<br />
Prabhat Mallick lodged criminal and civil cases at the Howrah Court (No. 57/2001). The<br />
criminal case is still pending at the Kolkata High Court. In the civil case, the Civil Judge of<br />
Howrah Junior Division 6 th Court passed an order on 30 March 2007 that the property in<br />
question belonged to Prabhat Mallick and his family, and that none had the right to harass them<br />
about it.<br />
On 26 April 2007 at around 4.30pm, the miscreants violated the order by beating Ashish Mallick.<br />
Ashish was hospitalised at the T.L. Jaiswal Hospital, Howrah.<br />
Annual <strong>Report</strong> on Torture<br />
2007