The realm is calm proper now, police stated, including that there’s an investigation underway.
Kolkata:
Recent violence has been reported from Kaliyaganj in West Bengal amidst anger over the alleged rape and homicide of a teen whose physique was discovered on Friday morning. The police had to make use of drive and hearth tear fuel shells once more to deliver the scenario underneath management, and extra forces have been deployed within the space to take care of calm.
State BJP chief and Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar visited the sufferer’s household right now and alleged the police had been incapable of investigating the incident.
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In the meantime, the BJP is utilizing the incident to assault the Trinamool Congress-led authorities, alleging that the police didn’t enable them to satisfy the sufferer’s household earlier. They’ve additionally claimed that the police had been suppressing and diluting proof and that the sufferer’s physique was dragged in such a fashion which wasn’t dignified.
Police sources have countered by saying they needed to get well the physique from an especially risky legislation and order scenario to protect proof that’s necessary within the investigation and guarantee a autopsy was carried out at once.
The incident got here to gentle on Friday morning when {the teenager}’s physique was found on the banks of a pond in Kaliyaganj city of the Uttar Dinajpur district. Locals discovered the physique of the minor, who had gone lacking. The police reached the spot to get well the physique and despatched it for postmortem.
On Friday, locals staged a protest demanding justice for her. When the police reached the spot, they declare they needed to courageous violence and stone pelting by offended mobs to retrieve the physique. The police fired tear fuel shells to dissipate the scenario.
The police say the physique must be retrieved in a protected method to make sure minimal contamination of proof, and so they tried to try this. Sadly, there was violence in that space, they stated, and so they had been pressured to fireplace tear fuel shells.
“Police had to make use of tear fuel on the protesters to get well the sufferer’s physique from them to make sure an early autopsy in order that necessary proof just isn’t misplaced. Now we have additionally fashioned a medical board to research the matter correctly. The incident shall be correctly investigated,” Dinajpur Superintendent of Police Sana Akhtar stated.
Police declare they managed to retrieve the physique earlier than any proof could possibly be broken. They’ve restricted the motion of politicians. The BJP alleges that native Trinamool politicians have been allowed within the space whereas they’re being stopped from visiting.
The realm is calm proper now, police stated, including that there’s an investigation underway.
Earlier on Saturday, the Nationwide Fee for Safety of Little one Rights (NCPCR) additionally took cognisance of the matter and stated it will ship a fact-finding group to conduct an inquiry.
A press release issued by the NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo’s workplace learn, “Now we have obtained details about the gang-rape incident and homicide of a woman baby in North Dinajpur in West Bengal. Now we have obtained a variety of info from many sources. It’s a heinous homicide, and we’re going to examine it. I personally will go to North Dinajpur with my group”.
It added, “Our group will attain there tomorrow. We’ll examine this incident by going there tomorrow night. We are attempting to contact the federal government via the governor’s home to cooperate with us within the investigation. This can be a case of homicide of a woman baby and getting her justice.”
NCPCR additionally alleged that the Chief Secretary of the state and the North Dinajpur Collector will not be responding regardless of the physique informing them concerning the incident.
The assertion additional said that punishing the culprits is the one strategy to cease such incidents in West Bengal.
