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Asima Raftan protested and tried to prevent the acts, but the crowd beat her with a bamboo stick<br />

on her right shoulder until she became unconscious. Asima Raftan’s husband Asim Raftan tried<br />

to come to her rescue but he was also beaten black and blue. All the people who tried to stop the<br />

attackers were beaten indiscriminately. The attackers tried to outrage the modesty of the women.<br />

This behaviour lasted for around two hours.<br />

Asima Raftan was taken to the Canning Hospital.<br />

The victims went to the Ghutiary Sharif Out Post to lodge complaint. OC Ardhendu Sekhar De<br />

Sarkar was indifferent, even when Asima Raftan showed them her injuries. The duty officer only<br />

registered a General Diary Entry, even though the complaint disclosed cognisable offences.<br />

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

On 20 April 2007, Asima Raftan filed a criminal case at the Alipur Police Court u/s 156(3) Cr.P.C.<br />

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Case Details:<br />

FF Code : W.B./MON (Subir Basu)/Howrah/<br />

Nov-30/11/07/SL No - 46<br />

Victim(s) : 1) Sk. Jabbar Ali; 2) Sabana Begam<br />

Perpetrator(s) : Ali Saheb, SI<br />

Location : Jaggadballav Pur Police Station,<br />

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

Date of incident : 10/<strong>03</strong>/2007 to 07/09/2007<br />

Victim Sk. Jabbar Ali, age 44, bought some property from Sahani Bibi, who had inherited the<br />

property from her father but had been harassed by her brothers who wanted to take it from her.<br />

Sahani Bibi’s brothers began to harass and to abuse Sk. Jabbar Ali, and started quarrels with<br />

him about trivial issues. They fenced the entrance to Sk. Jabbar Ali’s hosue so that he could not<br />

access his land, and they obstructed his electricity line. They frightened his wife, victim Sabana<br />

Begam, threatening to assault her and to torture her. They stopped Sabana Began from using<br />

her own pond.<br />

Sk. Jabbar Ali and Sabana Begam reported this abuse repeatedly to the Jaggadballav Pur PS<br />

repeatedly – including on 10 March 2007 (General Entry No. 510), 7 August 2007 (General<br />

Entry No. 400), and 7 September 2007 (General Entry No. 322). No action was taken.<br />

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

2007

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