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

Accordingly, the police interrogated Chakrabarty in the presence of Humayun Kabir and Rajib
Kumar at the CID Office, Bhabani Bhaban, Kolkata. During the interrogation, the officers punched
Chakrabarty.
At the DDI Office, Kharagpur, officers Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Dipak Sarkar, Pandit Babu, and
Shib Nath Babu (as well as other officers) also interrogated Chakrabarty. They forced him to sign
several blank papers and fabricated seizure lists. The police did not give Subhankar Chakrabarty
any copies of these documents.
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On 9 September 2007, CID officials brought Chakrabarty to the Belpahari PS, where they took
his picture and incorrectly recorded his age as 33.
Additionally, a group of policemen in commando uniforms took Chakrabarty to a forested location
where a bomb had exploded in 2006. There, they took Subhankar Chakrabarty’s picture in
different poses. The FIR related to the bomb incident does not include Chakrabarty’s name.
Case Details:
FF Code
Victim(s)
Perpetrator(s)
Location
Date of incident : 13/07/2007
: W.B./MON (S. Mukhtar Ahmed)/
District 24 PGS (N)/
June-26/07/2007/SL.No.-47
: 1.Abhranil Mukherjee, 2. Debasish
Biswas, 3. Swarup Tarafdar,
4. Biswanath Deyan
: Office-in-charge of Barasat PS
: Barasat State General Hospital,
North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Annual Report on Torture
2007
The barbaric police attack on group of journalists aided by hooligan elements at Barasat State
General Hospital while the journalists went to the place to cover the news of newborn baby who
died by the negligent acts of hospital authority.
The hospital authority did not listen to queries of the journalists instead they tried to remove them
from there by applying force with the police assistance. Police resorted to lathi charge on them.
As a result of this, some of the journalists were severely injured.
On 13/07/07, the Police officials of Barasat PS arrested Abhranil Mukherjee and others victims,
later they were released by executing personal bail bond.