Suvendu seeks probe into gangrape-death of Bengal teenager

Kolkata, April 11 : Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday sought a probe into the alleged gang rape death of 14-year-old girl in Nadia district as also atrocities on devotees on Ram Navami. “Both highlight worrisome state of crime against women and nosediving law and order scenario,” Adhikari stated. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has sought an urgent report from State Chief Secretary on both counts. Meanwhile, a 12-hour shutdown, sponsored by the BJP, was observed in Hanskhali block of Nadia district to protest the gangrape and murder of the 14-year-old girl. A Trinamool Congress leader’s son accused of committing the crime has been arrested. The Hanskhali block under the Ranaghat subdivision looked deserted as the people preferred to remain indoors. Shops and businesses have been suspended after the BJP called for the shutdown in the block to protest the “heinous” crime on a minor girl of the locality. Twenty-one-year-old Brajgopal Goala, the son of Samar Goala, a member of the Hanskhali (number 1) gram panchayat, has been arrested after an FIR was registered under sections of 376(2)(G) (gangrape), 302 (murder), 204 (tampering with evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The teenage girl was allegedly gangraped and murdered on Saturday and was cremated on the same day, allegedly without medical examinations and the death, according to a member of the bereaved family. BJP leader Shamik Bhattacharya alleged that under the present government run by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the TMC men have been accused of committing the crime on their people and they also cremating the dead bodies without medical examinations and death certificates. The Congress state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury while condemning the ghastly murder and rape alleged the state has been witnessing arson, murders, rapes and looting. State minister Jyotipriya Mallick said the offenders would not go unp shed and asserted that TMC did not believe in violence. Samar Goala, father of the arrested prime accused, said the law will take its own course and said he would not support the crime committed on the girl. SJC-PC SSP ARN