CPM women’s wing demand security for rape-attempt victim

EOI, Malda, 17 Nov 2014: A high level delegation of CP(M)’s women wing Ganatantrik Mahila Samity (GMS) led by its all India president Malini Bhattacharya on Monday demanded that police must provide security to the rape-attempt survivor of Laxmighat incident in Malda. They also demanded that state government would have to bear the entire expenses of her father’s treatment.

The GMS delegation during their visit to Nagrai village in English Bazaar police station to meet the woman, however, faced the ire from a large number of local women who claimed the incident also had “the other side” and the GMS delegation would have to consider both the aspects of the incident.

Bhattacharya, Ramala Chakraborty and district GMS secretary Ratna Bhattacharya first visited Nagrai village in the morning and said that police had showed indifference to the woman’s complaint. “She said that the accused Rintu Sheikh attempted to rape her four months back. However, instead of taking action against the accused police tried to mitigate the matter through a kangaroo court. Again she was attacked by the accused and her father was critically injured by the accused but police again neglected the matter and interpreted the incident echoing the claim of a minister,” Bhattacharya said.

GMS would provide the legal assistance to the woman but the state government should arrange the woman’s security and her father’s treatment, she promised. The GMS delegation also met the additional SP Abhishek Modi to place their demands. Modi informed that police had already initiated a probe and arrested the accused.