Tag: West Bengal post poll violence

  • Bengal post-poll violence: Legal professionals’ staff to satisfy President Ram Nath Kovind, take out protest march on April 29

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: A delegation of 10 advocates, who’re a part of an affiliation named ‘Legal professionals for Justice’, mentioned on Wednesday they’re going to meet President Ram Nath Kovind on April 29 to call for justice for the sufferers of post-poll violence in West Bengal remaining 12 months.

    Addressing a press convention, the affiliation’s convener Kabir Shankar Bose mentioned a candle mild tribute march has additionally been organised for households of the sufferers, from Patiala Space Courtroom to Tilak Marg on Friday.

    “We can meet the President on April 29 to call for justice for the sufferers of post-poll violence in West Bengal,” Bose mentioned.

    The march might be taken out in Delhi as reporters in West Bengal had been “barred” from interacting with the sufferers, he alleged, including it desires the media within the nationwide capital to “pay attention their plight”.

    “Submit Might 2, 2021, (announcement of West Bengal Meeting election effects), a reign of unheard of terror, lawlessness and violence was once unleashed via goons and anti-socials actively supported via the ruling dispensation and the political birthday celebration in energy within the state,” he alleged.

    The affiliation claimed that violence, loot, arson, rapes and homicide instances within the West Bengal are continuously being transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a result of “the Calcutta Top Courtroom has no religion within the West Bengal management and the state police”.

    “There were inside displacements, sexual attacks, rapes and murders after the election effects have been declared. Just lately, about 20 contributors have been locked in a area and burnt alive in Rampurhat, a minor was once gang-raped in Hanskhali in Nadia district, elected councillors of opposition events have been shot lifeless in vast day mild. The Calcutta Top Courtroom deemed it have compatibility to reserve CBI investigation into these kinds of instances,” Bose mentioned.