4 women beaten, stripped in Bengal’s Jalpaiguri on suspicion of abducting children
Siliguri : Four women were beaten up and two of them even stripped by a mob in a village in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Monday afternoon on suspicion of being child lifters before police rescued them.
Sanjay Dutta, inspector-in-charge of Dhupguri police station said, “We rescued the women from the mob. No arrest has been made till night.”
The incident is the latest in a series of assaults and lynching across the country where people have attacked strangers at the slightest suspicion of them being child lifters. Two of the women are residents of Hospital Para in Dhupguri town, one is from Station More area of Dhupguri while one lives in the Court More area of Siliguri town. Only the women from Dhupguri knew each other.
The four women had gone to Daukimari village market, about five km from Dhupguri. Two of them had gone to the office of a micro finance company, one wanted to meet a relative while one was out to sell clothes.
Some people allegedly triggered panic in the market saying the women were child lifters. A mob gathered in no time and started assaulting the women. Two women were even stripped. The mob then took them to a local club.
On hearing the news police rushed to the spot and resorted to lathi charge. Police rescued the women and escorted them to their homes.
Monday’s incident took place exactly a week after a mentally challenged woman in Dhupguri’s Kadamtala village was tied to a pillar and thrashed by a mob on suspicion of being a child lifter. She is a resident of Balagarh in Hooghly district, more than 700 km from where she was assaulted.
Police had registered a case suo-motu against a BJP leader, Taramani Roy, vice president of the party’s Mahila Morcha, Jalpaiguri district committee for allegedly leading the mob which attacked the woman.
courtesy : hindustantimes.com
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6 held for murder of Congress leader in Ludhiana
Ludhiana (PTI): Six persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Congress leader Parminder Tiwari, who was hacked to death with an axe on Sunday in Machhiwara here.
Tiwari, the block president of the Congress party from Machhiwara in Ludhiana, was murdered on March 29 while sitting outside his rented quarters near Takhran village
Deputy Commissioner of Police Jaskaranjit Singh Teja stated the case is neither linked to politics nor gang rivalry.
The main accused, Vijay Kumar and Lucky, were apprehended in Jamalpura village in Munger district, Bihar, by a special team dispatched there, police said.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspects aimed to illegally occupy a piece of panchayat land in the Machiwara area, but Tiwari opposed their plans. The accused allegedly visited Tiwari at his rented quarters on March 29 and attacked him with an axe, resulting in his immediate death, officials said.
The other four individuals arrested are relatives of the main accused and were aware of the murder plot, the DCP added.
Police have recovered the axe used in the crime, as well as the motorcycle the accused used to flee the scene.
