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FF Code : W.B./MON (SMA)/24 PGS(N)/
Sep-12/09/2007/Sl.No.-66
Victim(s) : Giasuddin Mondal
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Julfikar Ali Mollaha, PI; 2)
Ayub Ali, SI
Location : Deganga PS, North 24
Parganas District, West Bengal
Date of incident : 02/08/2007
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Case Details:
Victim Giasuddin Mondal was an iron scrap trader based at Jibanpur, North 24 Parganas. He
was the only bread-winner of his poor family. As his business was flourishing, agents of the local
PS used to collect Rs. 100 per month from him; the agents later demanded a hike in the amount.
On 31 January 2007, the police arrested Giasuddin Mondal on an accusation of theft of electric
wires. Giasuddin Mondal spent almost seven days in prison.
On 2 August 2007 at about 7.30pm, SI Ayub Ali of Deganga PS, along with four or five police
personnel, came to Giasuddin Mondal’s shop and arrested him. His little son hugged him with
fear but those policemen pushed his son aside and brought Giasuddin Mondal to the station.
At the station, PI Julfikaqr Ali Mollah tortured Giasuddin Mondal in an inhuman and brutal
manner. The PI forced Giasuddin Mondal to put his head on a table while he fully sprayed acid
into his rectum. This method of torture wreaked havoc with Giasuddin Mondal’s health: his
rectum swelled greatly and he bled profusely from his anus.
Annual Report on Torture
2007
On 4 August 2007, Giasuddin Mondal was sent to Biswanathpur Hospital for a medical checkup,
but the casual examination revealed nothing. Giasuddin Mondal was produced before Court of
the Magistrate at Barasat after twenty-four hours of detention. There, Giasuddin Mondal was
implicated in a police case (Deganga PS Case No. 154, dated 04.08.07) u/s 399/402 IPC r/w
25(1)/(a) 127 of the Arms Act, for preparing to commit dacoity and assembling for such purpose,
and for illegal possession of fire arms. The Magistrate ordered Giasuddin Mondal remanded
until 13 August 2007, and ordered Giasuddin Mondal to receive treatment at the Jail Hospital.
While Giasuddin Mondal was in the Jail Hospital, he learned that the police had also implicated
him in two other cases: Deganga PS Case No. 57, dated 17.03.07 u/s 147/148/149/323/506/