03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch

FF Code : W.B./MON (Sabitabrata
Ghole)/Howrah/Aug-03/08/
2006/SL. NO.—23
Victim(s) : Sunita Shaw
Perpetrator(s) : Mominul Islam, IO,
Golbari PS
Location : Golabari PS
Date of incident : 25/07/2005
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Case details:
Victim Sunita Shaw lived with her husband’s family in Howrah District, West Bengal. Shaw’s inlaws
regularly abused her, and accused her of having provided too small a dowry.
On 25 July 2005, Shaw’s husband and his family burned Shaw by pouring kerosene on her and
lighting a matchstick on her. She suffered burns on ninety-eight percent of her body.
On 26 July 2005, Sunita’s brother filed a written complaint at the Golabari PS (Case No. 179/05,
dated 26 July 2005), under ss. 498A/326/34 IPC. IO Mominul Islam did not investigate key
witnesses, seize important documents, or arrest the alleged perpetrators. Instead, IO Islam filed
a final declaration on Shaw’s behalf, to which he affixed Shaw’s thumbprint. The final declaration
was written in Bengali despite Shaw’s mother tongue being Hindi.
The final declaration claimed that Shaw’s kitchen stove spontaneously exploded.
On 28 July 2005, Sunita died from her injuries.
FF Code : W.B./ MON (Sabitabrata Ghole)/
Howrah/ Apr-27/04/2007/Sl.No.-28
Victim(s) : 1) Supia Begum; 2) Jamat Ali Saikh
Perpetrator(s) : Manikpur Investigating Centre
Location : PS, Manikpur Investigating Centre
Date of incident : 03/04/2007
Annual Report on Torture
2007
Case Details:
Victims Supia Begum and Jamat Ali Saikh live in Sarenga, Uttarpara, KGT Para, Sankrail,
Howrah.
Begum’s and Saikh’s relatives sought to deprive them of their share of jointly owned property.
The relatives cut bamboo from Begum’s and Saikh’s bamboo clump, looted their fruits, put