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illagers vandalised the constabulary outpost and acceptable it connected fire, resulting successful respective important documents getting destroyed. The constabulary yet resorted to a baton complaint to disperse the crowd.
Hours aft a nine-year-old miss was allegedly raped and murdered successful a colony successful West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, unit broke retired successful the country connected Saturday greeting arsenic aggravated villagers acceptable a constabulary outpost connected fire, alleging inaction connected the section police’s side. The constabulary denied the allegations saying that 1 idiosyncratic had been arrested successful the case.
According to the girl’s household and neighbours, she had gone to a coaching centre connected Friday afternoon. When she failed to instrumentality home, her household began searching for her. When they failed to find her, they approached the constabulary to study her missing. The section police, however, directed them to record a ailment astatine different constabulary station, the household alleged.
When the girl’s assemblage was discovered successful a adjacent pond connected Friday night, tensions escalated successful the area.
On Saturday morning, an agitated assemblage gathered astir the section constabulary presumption with brooms, sticks and bamboos. Sub-Divisional Police Officer Atish Biswas was gheraoed. Villagers vandalised the constabulary outpost and acceptable it connected fire, resulting successful respective important documents getting destroyed. The constabulary yet resorted to a baton complaint to disperse the crowd.
“So far, 1 idiosyncratic has been arrested. It remains to beryllium seen if anyone other is involved. Efforts are underway to normalise the concern successful the area. That is our priority,” a elder constabulary authoritative said.
Responding to the allegations of negligence and incompetence against the police, helium added, “We person identified and arrested the accused and helium has confessed too. We person taken each measurement and acted promptly. Still if radical person allegations we volition surely look into it arsenic well,” helium added.
The incidental has triggered a governmental contention with the Opposition hitting retired astatine the Trinamool Congress government. “They did not instrumentality the ailment seriously. It is Devi Paksha and astatine specified a time, our girl is being raped and murdered. Which Durga shall we worship if our Durga astatine location is not safe? It is each due to the fact that of Mamata Banerjee. She has dispersed a connection that [the constabulary should] not instrumentality FIR easily,” BJP person Sukanto Majumdar said.
“Those who raped a nine-year-old girl…do they person the close to worship Durga connected Ashtami? Where are we heading arsenic a society?” CPIM person Tanmay Bhattacharjee said.
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