The realm is calm proper now, police stated, including that there’s an investigation underway.
Kolkata:
Contemporary violence has been reported from Kaliyaganj in West Bengal amidst anger over the alleged rape and homicide of a young person whose physique was discovered on Friday morning. The police had to make use of power and fireplace tear gasoline shells once more to carry 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 at this time 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 permit them to fulfill 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 a particularly risky legislation and order scenario to protect proof that’s essential within the investigation and guarantee a autopsy was performed immediately.
The incident got here to mild 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 gasoline shells to dissipate the scenario.
The police say the physique must be retrieved in a protected method to make sure minimal contamination of proof, they usually tried to do this. Sadly, there was violence in that space, they stated, they usually had been pressured to fireside tear gasoline shells.
“Police had to make use of tear gasoline on the protesters to get well the sufferer’s physique from them to make sure an early autopsy in order that essential proof shouldn’t be misplaced. Now we have additionally fashioned a medical board to research the matter correctly. The incident might 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 Baby Rights (NCPCR) additionally took cognisance of the matter and stated it could ship a fact-finding workforce to conduct an inquiry.
An announcement issued by the NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo’s workplace learn, “Now we have obtained details about the gang-rape incident and homicide of a lady youngster 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 workforce”.
It added, “Our workforce will attain there tomorrow. We’ll examine this incident by going there tomorrow night. We try to contact the federal government by way of the governor’s home to cooperate with us within the investigation. This can be a case of homicide of a lady youngster and getting her justice.”
NCPCR additionally alleged that the Chief Secretary of the state and the North Dinajpur Collector are usually not responding regardless of the physique informing them in regards to the incident.
The assertion additional acknowledged that punishing the culprits is the one solution to cease such incidents in West Bengal.
