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

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On 28 August 2007 at around 11.00am, the three victims were badly burnt in circumstances that<br />

remain unclear.<br />

Saruf Ali died shortly thereafter. Hasan Ali and Sahana Katun were suffering with 80-100% burn<br />

injuries.<br />

Villagers moved the victims to the BN Bose Hospital at Barrackpore by the villagers; the police,<br />

who arrived three hours later (despite that the police station is only 3km away) did nothing.<br />

At 12.00pm, Sahana Katun died.<br />

At 4.00pm, Hasan Ali died.<br />

The Barasat police registered a case of unnatural death (Case No. 372) and sent the bodies for<br />

post-mortem examination. Then the police registered a case (Case No. 573/07, u/s 286 and<br />

304 IPC).<br />

At 12.00am, the police raided the village and arrested several innocent persons who were not<br />

connected with the incident. During their raid, the police ransacked the houses of many poor<br />

villagers and claimed that they had seized many explosives.<br />

The police have still made no effort to identify the leader of the explosives industry. It has been<br />

alleged that the police have done little because they received bribes from those who violate the<br />

explosives laws. However, one Julfikar from Ranaghat was arrested nearly 80km from Bedo<br />

Narayan Para.<br />

The victims’ families have still been unable to locate the victims’ BPL cards.<br />

Complaints have been filed with the Principal Secretary (Home, Government of <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong>),<br />

the NCM, the NHRC, the District Magistrate, and the SP.<br />

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

119<br />

Case Details:<br />

FF Code : WB/MON(S. Mukhtar Ahmed)/<br />

24 PGS(N)/07/10/2006<br />

Victim(s) : Hasmat Ali<br />

Perpetrator(s) : POs<br />

Location : Titagarh PS, North 24 Parganas<br />

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

Date of incident : 09/09/2006<br />

Victim Hasmat Ali, age 12, lives with his uncle Md. Azad. He works in the tyre repair shop of<br />

Md. Akhtar, another of his uncles.<br />

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

2007

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