Gangrape, Murder Charges In WB Girl's Death
The cops also arrested three accused– Prabhas Mondal, Dibakar Sardar and Ananda Sardar– and detained three suspects in the case for interrogation during multiple raids since Sunday evening.
Kolkata: A day after the recovery of an abducted girl's body which triggered a mob fury leading to lynching of a suspect at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas of West Bengal, the victim's post mortem report has revealed gangrape before her murder.
This prompted the police to add gangrape and murder charges of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita against the accused in the case and impose prohibitory orders under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita in and around the area on Monday.
The cops also arrested three accused– Prabhas Mondal, Dibakar Sardar and Ananda Sardar– and detained three suspects in the case for interrogation during multiple raids since Sunday evening. Prabhas and Dibakar were remanded to police custody by a court on Monday.
Preliminary investigations suggest the involvement of four accused in the crime on the 12-year-old girl. West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari informed that his government would seek capital punishment during trial in court for the culprits.
He said, “Four cases have been initiated by the police. One of them is related to the main crime while others are about the incidents that later happened during the mob fury on Sunday. Two central forces troopers were hurt in the attack on the police.”
The CM added, “Attempts were also made to remove the railway tracks that reminds me of the anti CAA/Waqf law protests here earlier. There is a communal angle in it also. Investigation is underway. None will be spared.” He is likely to visit Baruipur on Tuesday.
Incidentally, local BJP leader Santanu Mondal who the villagers blamed for helping some of the accused to walk free from the Baruipur police station after detention on Sunday, has gone into hiding.
In the afternoon, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, whose loyalists claimed of blocking her visit to Baruipur, took out a candle light march from her residence on Harish Chatterjee Street in Kalighat in protest of the brutal crime.
She was accompanied by her followers, mostly new and young. Two MPs and two MLAs, who are loyal to her, visited Baruipur. They also spoke to the victim's family members and offered their support to them.