Minor girls raped

Statesman News Service

MALDA. (India)Dec. 23. — An eight-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by a group of four boys at Debiganj village under Olihonda gram panchayat in Chanchal police station, the police said on Friday.The authorities said the minor girl was allegedly gang raped on 21 December in a bush near her house. The police said that the miscreants picked up the girl when she was playing with her friends. The parents came to know the incident when the girl returned home alone after a few hours and told what she went through. The parents informed the villagers at evening on Wednesday and sought help demanding punishment for the four criminals. The villagers informed the CPI-M gram panchayat pradhan and organised a kangaroo court at their village, the officer in-charge of the Chanchal police station said claiming that nobody agreed to inform the police about the incident on that day. Villagers at the local court under the leadership of the CPI-M Prodhan tried to convince the parents that the accused boys, age between 16 and 17, would bear the cost of medical treatment, an official said. Parents turned violent and decided to inform police when the four accused agreed to pay only Rs 100, sources said. Though the girl was admitted to the Chanchal rural hospital on 22 December morning but she was not attended by the doctors on time, police said. The hospital doctors told them that they would attend her only if they inform police and registered the case, Mr Krishnendu Chatterjee, the OC, Chanchal police station said. “We registered the case as a gang rape consulting with the local hospital doctors yesterday,” Mr Chatterjee said. He added: “Today the girl was referred to Malda district hospital for treatment and medical examination. We could not inform the police because we were threatened with dire consequences by the accused group”, said Md. Majid Ali, father of the victim. Malda SP Mr DK Mondal from Kolkata instructed to nab the criminals.While interrogation the victim disclosed four names of accused before the police. “We are planning to trap them. They fled the place after the kangaroo court trial,” the O C Chanchal said. The Congress MLA, elected from Chanchal area, Mr Mahababul Hoque expressed his concern over the issue and took initiative to admit her in the district hospital.

Girl raped by father

A 16-year-old girl accused her father of raping her.The girl, a resident of Balancha village in North Dinajpur’s Islampur police station area, yesterday registered a complaint with the Islampur police against her father, Md Khairul, a peasant, alleging that her father used to rape her frequently at home. Khairul was later arrested by the police.The girl, whose mother had expired nearly seven years ago, said when the situation became intolerable on 16 December, she chose to knock on the doors of her relatives. “When I told them everything, they suggested me not to inform the police keeping in mind the prestige of our family and my future. I kept mum for three years in a row. But since it was not possible for me to live this way, I finally decided to register a complaint against my father with the police,” she said, adding that after raping her on 16 December, her father had threatened her not to disclose the matter to anyone else.”Mr Dinesh Pramanik, officer-in-charge of Islampur police station, said: “On the basis of the complaint lodged by the girl, we have arrested her father and an inquiry has been instituted against him. A medical test would be conducted on the girl to know the truth.”

Addtional reporting by SNS in North Dinajpur , adjoining district of Malda