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

Phani and twenty-five other human-rights defenders under sections 427, 434, and 447 IPC
(mischief and trespass).
On 7 March 2007, the former IJSIL workers met with officers from the Bally PS because the
police wanted the workers to stop entering onto factory premises.
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On 10 March 2007, PI Asit Saw and other officers from the Bally PS [allegedly influenced by
ACPL] filed a charge against Phani and other human-rights defenders, naming Phani as principal
offender. The officer in charge at the Bally PS has told the workers that they may no longer enter
the IJSIL premises, citing an order from a higher official that he could not produce.
On 20 March 2007, the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Howrah released Phani on bail pending
resolution of the case.
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Victim(s) : Pintu Bonick
Perpetrator(s) : 1) POs Bidhannagar PS;
2) POs Gaighata PS
Location : Victim’s cycle stall, near Chand Para
Railway Station, North 24 Parganas
Date of incident : 22/10/2006
Case Details:
Victim Pintu Bonick, age 25, owns a cycle shop.
Annual Report on Torture
2007
On 22 October 2006, Bidhannagar PS police officers arrested Bonick. When other shop
owners asked the police officers what they were doing, the police responded that they were taking
Bonick to Gaighata PS as part of an investigation. The officers said that they would return Bonick
later that day. They left with Bonick in a white car.
Around 10.00pm, Bonick’s mother went with two others to Gaighata PS. The officers there
claimed to know nothing about the arrest.
On 26 October 2006, an officer from Gaighata PS informed Bonick’s family that the police would
produce Bonick before the Court of the Special Judge, Barasat, North 24 Parganas, on the
following day.