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Case Details:<br />

FF Code : W.B. /MON(Susmita Roy Choudhury)/<br />

24PGS (S)/ Sep-11/09/2007/Sl.No- 89<br />

Victim(s) : 1) Debnarayan Haldar; 2) Krishnapada<br />

Haldar; 3) the wife of Debnarayan Haldar<br />

Perpetrator(s) : Surya Kanta Mondal, OC<br />

Location : Gosaba Police Station, South 24 Parganas<br />

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

Date of incident : 20/08/2007<br />

Victim Debnarayan Haldar, age 28, lives with his parents in Dayapur Village, Gosaba District.<br />

They are members of the Scheduled Caste community. Debnarayan Haldar’s family had a<br />

conflict with their neighbour, Nityananda Mondal, regarding some land.<br />

On 20 August 2007 at 8.00am, Nityananda Mondal’s brother Pintu Mondal trespassed onto<br />

Debnarayan Haldar’s family’s agricultural land and beat Debnarayan Haldar’s father Krishnapada<br />

Haldar almost to death. Some nearby farmers notified Debnarayan Haldar, who came to<br />

rescue his father. When he arrived, Nitayanda Mondal hit him with a spade on his back and then<br />

bit his upper lip. Debnarayan Haldar went unconscious.<br />

When Debnarayan Haldar’s wife arrived to rescue him, Nityananda and Pintu Mondal molested<br />

her.<br />

Some neighbours took Debnarayan Haldar to Gosaba PS to lodge a complaint, but the officers<br />

there only filed a General Diary Entry.<br />

The neighbours had Debnarayan Haldar admitted to the Gosaba Hospital, where he underwent<br />

treatment for six days.<br />

On 27 August 2007, Debnarayan Haldar was transferred to Bangur State Hospital for better<br />

treatment.<br />

On 28 August 2007, Debnarayan Haldar lodged a written complaint by post with the Gosaba PS,<br />

but the police ignored his complaint.<br />

Debnarayan Haldar also lodged complaints with the Superintendent of Police (South 24 Parganas)<br />

and the SHRC. No action was taken.<br />

On 30 August 2007, Debnarayan Haldar filed a case against the perpetrators in the Court of<br />

Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore u/s 148/447/448/323/325/326/506(II)/34<br />

IPC and 156(3) Cr.P.C. The officers of Gosaba PS did not take any legal action and took a stand<br />

strongly in favour of Nityananda and Pintu Mondal because the latter were influential.<br />

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

107<br />

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

2007

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