Man stabbed for defending sister
Goon Attacks Victim On Main Road, But No One Responds To Cries For Help
Monotosh Chakraborty TNN 07.02.2013
Mathurapur: A 32-year-old man is fighting for his life after being stabbed repeatedly while trying to protect his sister from a molester in South 24-Parganas’ Mathurapur on Tuesday evening. The attack took place at an auto stand on the main road during peak traffic hour but no one dared challenge the molester because he is a history-sheeter who roams around freely although he us branded an absconder.
The vicious attack brought back memories of the murder of schoolboy Rajib Das, who was stabbed to death for defending her sister from a gang of molesters in Barasat in February 2011.
The victim of Tuesday’s molestation is a 28-year-old woman, married for three years. Her brother, a farmer, is admitted to Diamond Harbour subdivisional hospital with multiple stab wounds on his chest and back. Doctors say he is in a critical condition.
The woman had come to visit her brother in Killa village on Tuesday and was on her way back in the evening. He accompanied her to the auto stand, as he always does, and a woman neighbour joined them for the short walk.
Around 7pm, local rowdy Nityananda Bar was passing by when he saw her and started passing lewd remarks. The group ignored him because the locality is terrified of him. But he stepped closer and kept making filthy gestures. The others waiting at the auto stand started running away but the 28-year-old woman’s brother stood up to him.
“This only angered Nityananda, who grabbed the young woman and started molesting her. Her brother resisted and a scuffle ensued. Suddenly Nityananda whipped out a chopper
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on stabbing and kicking him even after he had collapsed on the road. She and I shouted for help but no one came forward, fearing for their lives,” said the neighbour.
The goon left after threatening to kill anyone who went to the police. The two women took the injured farmer to Mathurapur hospital, where the doctors patched him up as best as they could and asked them to take him to Diamond Harbour Hospital because he was sinking.
Nityananda is accused in several cases, including dacoity, gun-running, extortion and selling stolen goods.
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attack took place at an auto stand during peak traffic hour but no one
dared challenge the molester because he is a history-sheeter
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Spate of molestations makes it a horror day for city
TIMES NEWS NETWORK07.02.2013
Kolkata: The city may have hit the streets time and again to protest against attack on women, but a series of molestations on Wednesday proved that the city is yet to practice what it preaches. The recent spate of molestations established the fact that Kolkata is not at all a safe place for women, as hinted by a national survey a few months back.
In Bonhooghly, a 36-yearold woman was harassed by a fellow passenger on a bus of route 34B on Wednesday. The accused allegedly harassed the complainant for some time. When the woman tried to protest, the youth brought out his mobile phone and tried to take her photograph. However, he was stopped by other passengers. The youth was then handed over to cops in Cossipore police station. He was later identified as Rabin Singha, a 29-year-old resident of Baranagar. According to cops, Thakur was in an inebriated state. Police initiated a case under sections 354 (criminal force) and 509 (molestation).
In Shyambazar, a 28-yearold woman from Sovabazar Street lodged a complaint against her 27-year-old neighbour Surojit Roy. She complained that Roy had passed lewd comments and when she protested, the accused had assaulted her. Police have started a case under section 509.
In another incident, a student of Class III was allegedly molested by one of her teachers at Tarun Tirtha Primary School. On the basis of her parents’ complaint, police have initiated a case and started interrogating the teachers of the school. This comes days after a student of a primary school in south Kolkata was molested by a mason engaged in the renovation of the school building.
This apart, a 55-year-old man was picked from the Watgunj for allegedly molesting his own daughter. He was arrested on the basis of the complaint filed by the girl.
According to cops, prompt action against molesters has instilled courage in victims. “They now come forward and file complaints as they believe police will punish their tormentors. Earlier, many such cases used to go unrecorded,” said a police officer.
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Teen gang-raped at Joynagar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK07.02.2013
Kolkata: As the city grimly marked the first year of the Park Street rape cases on Tuesday, about 50km away, in South 24-Parganas’ Joynagar, a Class IX girl was dragged to the side of the road, beaten up and gangraped. A boy who was escorting her home was also beaten up when he tried to protect her.
Police have filed a case of gang rape and sent the girl for medical tests. According to the complaint, the attack took place around 7pm at Vidyarai Mor at Nimpith. Earlier in the evening, the 15-year-old girl had insisted on visiting her grandparents in Naloa, some 3km away, and her parents asked one of close friends to accompany her. They were on their way back on the boy’s bicycle when four men stopped them at a deserted area near a school in Doshora Bhagabanpur.
The boy sensed the danger and pedaled furiously to get away, but the gang chased them down and pushed them off the cycle. Two of the goons beat the boy and held him down as the other two dragged the girl into some bushes and raped her. They returned to pin down the boy so that the other two could take turns to rape the girl, says the complaint.
She was barely conscious when they decided to dump her where she lay and walked away. The boy, who was himself injured, brought her home. The horrified parents immediately went to Joynagar police station and lodged a complaint. All the rapists were between 20 and 22 years of age, says the victim.
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Howrah girls nab molesters
TIMES NEWS NETWORK07.02.2013
Howrah: Two girls, who were harassed by three youths on Church Road on Wednesday afternoon, fought back valiantly and managed to hold on to two of their tormentors. With the help of the passers-by, the duo was handed over to police while the third managed to escape.
The arrested youths were later identified as 19-year-old Md Nadim and 20-year-old Md Shamim.
It is learnt that the girls, one a student of Class X and the other of Class VIII in a Hindi-medium school in Howrah, were returning home from school around 11am on Wednesday. When they reached Church Road, the youths started stalking them. Soon, the trio started passing lewd comments. Shamim then approached the Class X student and proposed her. He also tried to hand her a letter.
However, the girl rejected his proposal and refused to take the letter. In the meantime, Shamim’s friends stopped the girls when they tried to move forward and abused them. The girl then slapped Shamim and began running. The youths too ran after them.
Sensing trouble, the girls screamed for help. As the passers-by rushed for help, two youths started hurling stones at them while the third ran for his life. Confident of support at hand, the girls made a dash towards the youths and managed to cling on to them till the crowd reached them and nabbed the duo.
Just then, a patrol jeep of Howrah Police’s Radio Flying Squad was passing by the area. It stopped at the spot and took away the rowdies to the police station. The girls later lodged a formal complaint at the Howrah police station.
“The youths have been arrested on the basis of the girls’ complaint. They have been charged under section 509A of the Indian Penal Code,” said Rakesh Singh, assistant commissioner of Howrah City Police. “We are investigating the duo to nab the third culprit,” he added.
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