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Subj: Press Release: Hindu Woman raped by Muslim-Mob in West Bengal...first hand report by Tathagata Roy, Prez
Dated August 07, 2005
Shri L.K.Advani, National President, BJP
Shri Rajnath Singh, Observer, West Bengal (camp : Kolkata)
Shri Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Dy. Party Leader, Lok Sabha
Sm. Sushma Swaraj, Dy. Party Leader, Rajya Sabha
Shri Sushil Modi M.P.
Shri Kharabela Swain, M.P.
Please find below a report on the heinous gang-rape and murder of a Hindu girl near Raiganj, Dt. North Dinajpur, followed by attempts on the part of the Police to hide the factum of rape, and the unlawful arrest and torture of some RSS Pracharaks and others. The murder was further followed by an unprovoked Police firing of more than 100 rounds in which at least two people have been killed, and several injured. The brutality that the Police exhibited was no less than what happened at Gurgaon.
Raiganj, incidentally, is Priya Ranjan Das Munsiâs Parliamentary Constituency, and very close to the Bangladesh border. Illicit organizations such as SIMI and the âJagroto Muslim Janataâ (a Bangladesh-based Islamic fundamentalist organization led by one Siddiqul Islam @ âBangla Bhaiâ, are active here.
Please try to raise this matter on the floor of either house of the Parliament.
(Tathagata Roy)
President, BJP, West Bengal
REPORT ON THE VISIT OF TATHAGATA ROY, PRESIDENT, BJP, WEST BENGAL, TO RAIGANJ, DT. NORTH DINAJPUR, WEST BENGAL
AUGUST 05, 2005
By
TATHAGATA ROY
President, BJP, West Bengal
On receiving news on 4th August 2005 afternoon that there had been heavy Police firing in Raiganj in the wake of the gang-rape and brutal murder of a Hindu girl and several Sangha Pracharaks, and BJP and other Vividh Sangathana Karyakartas had been arrested, I proceeded to Raiganj and reached there on 5th August morning. Thereafter I held detailed discussions with our Karyakartas as well as those of the Sangha and other Vividh Sangathanas, as also with Shri Meena, IG (North Bengal) of the West Bengal Police, Shri Sanyal, SP, North Dinajpur district, Shri Nilkanta Das, father of the deceased girl, his neighbours, S/Shri Gobinda Ghosh, Vibhag Pracharak, RSS and Shyamal Pal, GS(Orgzn), BJP of North and South Dinajpur districts, and a Sangha Pracharak, two persons injured in police firing and undergoing treatment at Raiganj Govt. Hospital, and Shri Pradhan, Officer-in-Charge Hemtabad P.S., also undergoing treatment at Raiganj Govt. Hospital. I visited the village Kasba Mahaso (near Kamalabari), P.S. Hemtabad, Dt. North Dinajpur, where the crime took place and the Raiganj Jail where the arrested persons are held in custody. On the basis of the same I have the following to report.
The late Pratima Das @ Felani, d/o Nilkanta Das aged about 14, of village Kasba Mahaso, P.S. Hemtabad, Dt. North Dinajpur, was being stalked and teased by four Muslim youths named Hero Mohammed (24) s/o Rafiqul, Martuza Md. (28) s/o Saqul Md., Hussain Ansari (22) s/o Aso Md., and Mukhtar Ali (20), s/o Sabul Md. Of the same village. Nilkanta Das is an illiterate farmer of very modest means. Nilkanta had more than once told Rafiqul, father of Hero, of the incident, and had warned him that he would go to the police if the teasing persisted. On 2nd August 2005 as Nilkanta was returning from field, he was informed by his nephew and a few others that Pratima had been killed. According to one Sm. Pal, a teacher of the local school and the wife of a Congress leader, Pratima had been found in a jute field nearby in a nearly naked state, her private parts bloodied and marks of biri-burns on her face. She had been strangulated to death with a piece of green jute stalk.
The police were informed and took away the body for post-mortem examination. Meanwhile the word got round that an innocent girl had been tortured, gang-raped and murdered in this manner. When even until 3rd August midday the body was not available a huge crowd gradually collected at the village near Nilkanta Dasâs house. They then barricaded the main road in protest against the murder â a very common form of protest in West Bengal. A police party under the leadership of Shri Mahendra Nath Diu, the SDO, then arrived and asked them to remove the blockade. A large number among the villagers were Sangh Swayamsevaks, and had informed the Vibhag Pracharak Shri Gobinda Ghosh about it, and Shri Ghosh arrived with Shri Shyamal Pal, another Pracharak and the General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP for the district. They tried to pacify the crowd which was getting more and more restive. The SDO then asked them to remove the block within ten minutes, failing which he said he would order a lathi-charge. Shri Ghosh and Pal told him not to take any precipitate steps, and tried to pacify the crowd. However, the crowd was incensed and would not listen so easily. Shri Ghosh and Pal kept telling them that the administration had basically accepted whatever they wanted, and they should now disperse peacefully.
Until this point there is very little difference between what I learnt from our party and Sangh sources and what was said by Shri Sanyal, the SP. Beyond this the versions differ. Shri Sanyal said that after some time S/Shri Ghosh and Pal told them that they could not help the matter, as the crowd was not listening to them. Then the crowd started pelting stones at the police and the police had to fire in self-defence. It is generally agreed that more than 100 rounds were fired. On the other hand our party workers present at the spot said that while S/Shri Ghosh and Pal were trying to reason with the crowd, someone, presumably the SDO suddenly ordered a lathi-charge, and thereafter the situation went out of control. The people killed in the firing were of course all innocent bystanders. S/Shri Ghosh and Pal were rounded up and brought to the Hemtabad P.S. where they were roundly thrashed with lathis. Shri Pal seemed to have suffered some kind of hemorrhage, and possibly a fracture, on one of his wrists, and Shri Ghosh possibly has one or more rib fractures, because of which he could not talk very well. When they were produced in Court on 4th August the Magistrate is said to have taken note of the fact that they were both injured and ordered their treatment in the Jail Hospital while ordering Jail Custody for them till 19th August. Apart from the two of them another four persons, namely S/Shri Dinesh Sarkar of the RSS and Rakesh Roy, Dilip Pramanik and Bileshwar Singh of the ABVP, were also arrested, beaten up and thrown into jail. They are apparently meant to be charged u/ss 147, 148, 149,333,353,427,153A,307,120B,337 and 338 of the IPC.
When I spoke to the SP and IG I asked them that even assuming what the SP was saying was true, the Sangh functionaries were at the most guilty of incompetence, having first committed to control the crowd, and later expressing their inability about it. How could such action be construed as chargeable under serious sections such as 307 (Attempted Murder), 153A (Communal Provocation) etc.? The IG and SP had no answer and advised me to engage competent lawyers to bail them out.
It is now clear that this arrest was done only to try to prove that the RSS had given provocation for the rioting, which forced the Police to do first a Lathi-charge and thereafter fire with level guns. The intention was to prove in one stroke that the RSS are guilty and the Police are innocent. This ill-motive of the government became clear when on the same evening Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced rejection of our demand for Judicial Enquiry, and in the same breath said that an all-party meeting would be convened the very next day, but the âRSS would not be called to the meeting on the grounds that they were themselves involved in the riotingâ. The BJP were, however, called.
Another sordid aspect of the whole incident was an attempt on the part of the police, with the connivance of the autopsy surgeon, to prove that there was no rape, only a simple case of murder; possibly because rape, more than murder, might result in a greater embarrassment for the administration, and greater polarization of popular opinion. When four young men strangle a penniless young girl to death in a jute field, it is clear that they did not do Puja to the girl before the heinous murder, they gang-raped her. Yet the post mortem report has tried to point at signs which would indicate that there was no rape. The factum of rape would, of course be conclusively established only after forensic examination of the vaginal swab, which has not yet been done. Yet, in the post-mortem report there are remarks like âHymen intact, deceasedâs underclothes not in disarrayâ, etc. There is no mention whether the underclothes contain any semen marks or blood. Contrary to what eye-witness Mrs. Pal had stated, there is no mention of biri-burn marks on the face.
It is worth mentioning in this connection that The CPI(M) government has always been extremely anxious to hide cases of gang-rape, especially where the perpetrators are Muslim and the victims are Hindu women (as is usually the case). This had happened in the cases of gang-rapes that occurred in the wake of Panchayat elections in West Bengal 2003. There were three such cases : under Dhantala P.S. in district Nadia ; under Goaltor P.S. in district Pashchim Medinipur ; and under Budbud P.S. in district Bardhaman. The first two were investigated by the National Womensâ Commission, as a result of which the truth came out in the open, but the third one was hushed up
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Subj: Press Release: Hindu Woman raped by Muslim-Mob in West Bengal...first hand report by Tathagata Roy, Prez
Dated August 07, 2005
Shri L.K.Advani, National President, BJP
Shri Rajnath Singh, Observer, West Bengal (camp : Kolkata)
Shri Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Dy. Party Leader, Lok Sabha
Sm. Sushma Swaraj, Dy. Party Leader, Rajya Sabha
Shri Sushil Modi M.P.
Shri Kharabela Swain, M.P.
Please find below a report on the heinous gang-rape and murder of a Hindu girl near Raiganj, Dt. North Dinajpur, followed by attempts on the part of the Police to hide the factum of rape, and the unlawful arrest and torture of some RSS Pracharaks and others. The murder was further followed by an unprovoked Police firing of more than 100 rounds in which at least two people have been killed, and several injured. The brutality that the Police exhibited was no less than what happened at Gurgaon.
Raiganj, incidentally, is Priya Ranjan Das Munsiâs Parliamentary Constituency, and very close to the Bangladesh border. Illicit organizations such as SIMI and the âJagroto Muslim Janataâ (a Bangladesh-based Islamic fundamentalist organization led by one Siddiqul Islam @ âBangla Bhaiâ, are active here.
Please try to raise this matter on the floor of either house of the Parliament.
(Tathagata Roy)
President, BJP, West Bengal
REPORT ON THE VISIT OF TATHAGATA ROY, PRESIDENT, BJP, WEST BENGAL, TO RAIGANJ, DT. NORTH DINAJPUR, WEST BENGAL
AUGUST 05, 2005
By
TATHAGATA ROY
President, BJP, West Bengal
On receiving news on 4th August 2005 afternoon that there had been heavy Police firing in Raiganj in the wake of the gang-rape and brutal murder of a Hindu girl and several Sangha Pracharaks, and BJP and other Vividh Sangathana Karyakartas had been arrested, I proceeded to Raiganj and reached there on 5th August morning. Thereafter I held detailed discussions with our Karyakartas as well as those of the Sangha and other Vividh Sangathanas, as also with Shri Meena, IG (North Bengal) of the West Bengal Police, Shri Sanyal, SP, North Dinajpur district, Shri Nilkanta Das, father of the deceased girl, his neighbours, S/Shri Gobinda Ghosh, Vibhag Pracharak, RSS and Shyamal Pal, GS(Orgzn), BJP of North and South Dinajpur districts, and a Sangha Pracharak, two persons injured in police firing and undergoing treatment at Raiganj Govt. Hospital, and Shri Pradhan, Officer-in-Charge Hemtabad P.S., also undergoing treatment at Raiganj Govt. Hospital. I visited the village Kasba Mahaso (near Kamalabari), P.S. Hemtabad, Dt. North Dinajpur, where the crime took place and the Raiganj Jail where the arrested persons are held in custody. On the basis of the same I have the following to report.
The late Pratima Das @ Felani, d/o Nilkanta Das aged about 14, of village Kasba Mahaso, P.S. Hemtabad, Dt. North Dinajpur, was being stalked and teased by four Muslim youths named Hero Mohammed (24) s/o Rafiqul, Martuza Md. (28) s/o Saqul Md., Hussain Ansari (22) s/o Aso Md., and Mukhtar Ali (20), s/o Sabul Md. Of the same village. Nilkanta Das is an illiterate farmer of very modest means. Nilkanta had more than once told Rafiqul, father of Hero, of the incident, and had warned him that he would go to the police if the teasing persisted. On 2nd August 2005 as Nilkanta was returning from field, he was informed by his nephew and a few others that Pratima had been killed. According to one Sm. Pal, a teacher of the local school and the wife of a Congress leader, Pratima had been found in a jute field nearby in a nearly naked state, her private parts bloodied and marks of biri-burns on her face. She had been strangulated to death with a piece of green jute stalk.
The police were informed and took away the body for post-mortem examination. Meanwhile the word got round that an innocent girl had been tortured, gang-raped and murdered in this manner. When even until 3rd August midday the body was not available a huge crowd gradually collected at the village near Nilkanta Dasâs house. They then barricaded the main road in protest against the murder â a very common form of protest in West Bengal. A police party under the leadership of Shri Mahendra Nath Diu, the SDO, then arrived and asked them to remove the blockade. A large number among the villagers were Sangh Swayamsevaks, and had informed the Vibhag Pracharak Shri Gobinda Ghosh about it, and Shri Ghosh arrived with Shri Shyamal Pal, another Pracharak and the General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP for the district. They tried to pacify the crowd which was getting more and more restive. The SDO then asked them to remove the block within ten minutes, failing which he said he would order a lathi-charge. Shri Ghosh and Pal told him not to take any precipitate steps, and tried to pacify the crowd. However, the crowd was incensed and would not listen so easily. Shri Ghosh and Pal kept telling them that the administration had basically accepted whatever they wanted, and they should now disperse peacefully.
Until this point there is very little difference between what I learnt from our party and Sangh sources and what was said by Shri Sanyal, the SP. Beyond this the versions differ. Shri Sanyal said that after some time S/Shri Ghosh and Pal told them that they could not help the matter, as the crowd was not listening to them. Then the crowd started pelting stones at the police and the police had to fire in self-defence. It is generally agreed that more than 100 rounds were fired. On the other hand our party workers present at the spot said that while S/Shri Ghosh and Pal were trying to reason with the crowd, someone, presumably the SDO suddenly ordered a lathi-charge, and thereafter the situation went out of control. The people killed in the firing were of course all innocent bystanders. S/Shri Ghosh and Pal were rounded up and brought to the Hemtabad P.S. where they were roundly thrashed with lathis. Shri Pal seemed to have suffered some kind of hemorrhage, and possibly a fracture, on one of his wrists, and Shri Ghosh possibly has one or more rib fractures, because of which he could not talk very well. When they were produced in Court on 4th August the Magistrate is said to have taken note of the fact that they were both injured and ordered their treatment in the Jail Hospital while ordering Jail Custody for them till 19th August. Apart from the two of them another four persons, namely S/Shri Dinesh Sarkar of the RSS and Rakesh Roy, Dilip Pramanik and Bileshwar Singh of the ABVP, were also arrested, beaten up and thrown into jail. They are apparently meant to be charged u/ss 147, 148, 149,333,353,427,153A,307,120B,337 and 338 of the IPC.
When I spoke to the SP and IG I asked them that even assuming what the SP was saying was true, the Sangh functionaries were at the most guilty of incompetence, having first committed to control the crowd, and later expressing their inability about it. How could such action be construed as chargeable under serious sections such as 307 (Attempted Murder), 153A (Communal Provocation) etc.? The IG and SP had no answer and advised me to engage competent lawyers to bail them out.
It is now clear that this arrest was done only to try to prove that the RSS had given provocation for the rioting, which forced the Police to do first a Lathi-charge and thereafter fire with level guns. The intention was to prove in one stroke that the RSS are guilty and the Police are innocent. This ill-motive of the government became clear when on the same evening Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced rejection of our demand for Judicial Enquiry, and in the same breath said that an all-party meeting would be convened the very next day, but the âRSS would not be called to the meeting on the grounds that they were themselves involved in the riotingâ. The BJP were, however, called.
Another sordid aspect of the whole incident was an attempt on the part of the police, with the connivance of the autopsy surgeon, to prove that there was no rape, only a simple case of murder; possibly because rape, more than murder, might result in a greater embarrassment for the administration, and greater polarization of popular opinion. When four young men strangle a penniless young girl to death in a jute field, it is clear that they did not do Puja to the girl before the heinous murder, they gang-raped her. Yet the post mortem report has tried to point at signs which would indicate that there was no rape. The factum of rape would, of course be conclusively established only after forensic examination of the vaginal swab, which has not yet been done. Yet, in the post-mortem report there are remarks like âHymen intact, deceasedâs underclothes not in disarrayâ, etc. There is no mention whether the underclothes contain any semen marks or blood. Contrary to what eye-witness Mrs. Pal had stated, there is no mention of biri-burn marks on the face.
It is worth mentioning in this connection that The CPI(M) government has always been extremely anxious to hide cases of gang-rape, especially where the perpetrators are Muslim and the victims are Hindu women (as is usually the case). This had happened in the cases of gang-rapes that occurred in the wake of Panchayat elections in West Bengal 2003. There were three such cases : under Dhantala P.S. in district Nadia ; under Goaltor P.S. in district Pashchim Medinipur ; and under Budbud P.S. in district Bardhaman. The first two were investigated by the National Womensâ Commission, as a result of which the truth came out in the open, but the third one was hushed up