08-05-2005, 11:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2005, 11:51 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
Raigunj rape-murder triggers frenzy; 1 dead, 37 injured
A North Dinajpur bandh has been called by the BJP and the SUCI over the police firing. The CM, who expressed concern over the incident, said he has asked the IG (north Bengal) to take necessary steps. Meanwhile, four men have been held for the rape and murder of the girl
Express News Service
Kolkata, August 4: The rape and murder of a 15-year-old Hindu girl by four men belonging to a minority community at Raigunj in North Dinajpur district triggered a VHP-RSS road blockade and considerable communal tension today.
The subsequent police firing and the scuffle killed an agitator and injured around 30 others. Seven policemen were also wounded.
Unconfirmed reports, however, put the death toll at two.
A district-wide bandh has been called by the BJP over the firing. The SUCI, interestingly, has also pitched in with the bandh call.
The Congress will join the strike and as a result, North Dinajpur, in all likelihood, is going to face a total bandh tomorrow.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who expressed grave concern over the incident, said he has asked the IG north Bengal to rush to the area and take necessary steps.
On Tuesday, Pratima Das, a student of class IX of a school in Hetamabad village under Raigunj police station, went to tend goats in the village meadows.
Pratima, however, did not come back home till even late on that day.
Yesterday night, her body was found in the meadows with convincing evidence of rape and subsequent strangulation, something which the police later confirmed.
They also arrested four men, all belonging to the minority community who, according to the police, immediately confessed to their crime.
Today, as the police went to the village to collect the girlâs body in order to send it for post-mortem examinations, a mob comprising mainly members of the VHP and the RSS resisted them.
The mob later blocked off the all-important Raigunj road.
Predictably, a scuffle ensued and the police, who reportedly first resorted to a lathicharge, later started firing on the mob.
ââOne person has died and seven police personnel, including senior police officers, have been injured,ââ Raj Kanojia, IG, law and order, said here.
Apart from the guilty quartet, the police have arrested another seven people in connection with todayâs violence.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory...id=142403#
A North Dinajpur bandh has been called by the BJP and the SUCI over the police firing. The CM, who expressed concern over the incident, said he has asked the IG (north Bengal) to take necessary steps. Meanwhile, four men have been held for the rape and murder of the girl
Express News Service
Kolkata, August 4: The rape and murder of a 15-year-old Hindu girl by four men belonging to a minority community at Raigunj in North Dinajpur district triggered a VHP-RSS road blockade and considerable communal tension today.
The subsequent police firing and the scuffle killed an agitator and injured around 30 others. Seven policemen were also wounded.
Unconfirmed reports, however, put the death toll at two.
A district-wide bandh has been called by the BJP over the firing. The SUCI, interestingly, has also pitched in with the bandh call.
The Congress will join the strike and as a result, North Dinajpur, in all likelihood, is going to face a total bandh tomorrow.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who expressed grave concern over the incident, said he has asked the IG north Bengal to rush to the area and take necessary steps.
On Tuesday, Pratima Das, a student of class IX of a school in Hetamabad village under Raigunj police station, went to tend goats in the village meadows.
Pratima, however, did not come back home till even late on that day.
Yesterday night, her body was found in the meadows with convincing evidence of rape and subsequent strangulation, something which the police later confirmed.
They also arrested four men, all belonging to the minority community who, according to the police, immediately confessed to their crime.
Today, as the police went to the village to collect the girlâs body in order to send it for post-mortem examinations, a mob comprising mainly members of the VHP and the RSS resisted them.
The mob later blocked off the all-important Raigunj road.
Predictably, a scuffle ensued and the police, who reportedly first resorted to a lathicharge, later started firing on the mob.
ââOne person has died and seven police personnel, including senior police officers, have been injured,ââ Raj Kanojia, IG, law and order, said here.
Apart from the guilty quartet, the police have arrested another seven people in connection with todayâs violence.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory...id=142403#