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FF Code : W.B./MON(Sabitabrata Ghole)/<br />

Howrah/July-29/07/07/Sl.No.-35<br />

Victim(s) : Dinabandhu Bairi<br />

Perpetrator(s) : Mansur Mohammad Daud<br />

Hossain, OC<br />

Location : Udaynarayanpur PS, Howrah<br />

District, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />

Date of incident : 24/07/2007<br />

<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />

224<br />

Annual <strong>Report</strong> on Torture<br />

2007<br />

Case Details:<br />

Victim Dinabandhu Bairi, age 32, lives in Sitapur village, Howrah district. He is a daily wage<br />

labourer at a tailoring shop, and a strong activist for the local political party Trinamul Congress.<br />

On 23 July 2007 the Trinamul Congress party held a programme for submitting a deputation at<br />

the Block Development Office, in which Dinabandhu Bairi took part. The BDO was not present<br />

in his Office that day, so his assistant requested the party members to submit their deputation<br />

before him. However, the party members did not agree; they became angry because their<br />

programme was fixed beforehand. They locked the BDO Office and went to Udaynarayanpur<br />

PS, where they agitated ever more strongly. Someone among them threw stones at the police<br />

station. The police conducted a lathi-charge and drove them away.<br />

The police filed a case against eleven of the party members, including Dinabandhu Bairi, u/s<br />

147/148/149/186/323/353/325/308/427/506 IPC, 3 PDPP Act, and 9 MPO Act. The case is<br />

now pending at Ulubaria Court.<br />

That night, the police started a raid in the Sitapur area.<br />

On 24 July 2007 at around 8.30pm, while Dinabandhu Bairi was at the tailoring shop, OC<br />

Mansur Mohammad Daud Hossain arrived and started to insult him. The OC ordered<br />

Dinabandhu Bairi to go to the Udaynarayanpur PS with him. Dinabandhu Bairi wanted a few<br />

minutes to close the shop, but the OC refused to give him any time. The OC pulled Dinabandhu<br />

Bairi out of the shop by force, kicked him, slapped him, and insulted him. The OC then dragged<br />

Dinabandhu Bairi to the police station and put him in the lock-up. The police did not prepare<br />

arrest memo, nor did they inform Dinabandhu Bairi’s family members of his arrest.<br />

On 25 July 2007, Dinabandhu Bairi was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate<br />

Court, Ulubaria. He told the judge about his abuse by the OC. The judge sent him to the Ulubaria<br />

Sub-Jail.<br />

On 3 August 2007, Dinabandhu Bairi was again produced before the Court, where he was given<br />

bail.<br />

Dinabandhu Bairi’s father sent written complaints to the Superintendent of Police (Howrah) and<br />

to the District Magistrate (Howrah). No action has been taken.

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