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

FF Code : W.B. /Mon (Murari Dey)/Hooghly/
July-02/07/2007/ Sl.No. - 36
Victim(s) : Dipak Dutta
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Inspector in Charge;
2) POs, Chinsura PS,
Hooghly,West Bengal
Location : Gharimore, Chinshura, Hooghly
District, West Bengal
Date of incident : 23/11/2006
Case Details:
Victim Dipak Dutta, age 67, was an employee of Hindustan Motors and was politically inclined
to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI). He was actively involved with various sociopolitical
movements. He resides in Keshpur village, Hooghly District, West Bengal.
On 23 November 2006, Dipak Dutta and thousands of others marched in protest against a
forcible land acquisition at Singur. All of the marchers were unarmed. The march started from
Khadinamore and reached Gharimore, Chinshura at around 2.45pm. There, they found a
huge band of armed police personnel. They shouted slogans for a few minutes. Then the
Inspector in Charge of Chinshura PS instructed the police to conduct a lathi-charge against the
protestors.
Dipak Dutta’s waist and legs were badly injured; he could not run away like many other protestors.
Instead, he lay immobile on the ground. The police grabbed him and dumped him into a police
vehicle.
At 5.20pm, the police took Dipak Dutta and other injured protestors to the Chinshura Imambara
Hospital.
At around 6.30pm, a doctor came to see Dipak Dutta, but allegedly under instructions from the
administration he did not initiate any treatment.
On 24 November 2006, an x-ray was taken of Dipak Dutta. That day, Dipak Dutta was not
produced before a Magistrate.
On 26 November 2006, SUCI leader Parimal Sen and the District Administration reached an
agreement that after Dipak Dutta was discharged from the Hospital he would appear before the
criminal court at Chinshura.
West Bengal
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Annual Report on Torture
2007