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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4 workers die after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) (PTI): At least four workers died after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Moonidih coal washery in the command area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL).
"Bodies of all four workers were dug out of debris during a rescue operation," Putki police station in-charge Waqar Hussain told PTI.
The incident took place when coal slurry was being loaded into trucks by workers, during which a large chunk of slurry fell and trapped several workers underneath, officials said.
The deceased have been identified as Manik Bauri, Dinesh Bauri, Deepak Bauri, and Hemlal Gope.
Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased and local villagers placed the bodies in front of the washery gate and began a protest.
They demanded compensation, jobs for dependents and action against those responsible for the incident.
Police and administration officials are trying to pacify the protesters, an official said.
