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On 7 June 2013, a 20-year-old college student was abducted, gang-raped and murdered in Kamduni village, | On 7 June 2013, a 20-year-old college student was abducted, [[Gang rape|gang-raped]] and murdered in Kamduni village, 16km from [[Barasat]], [[North 24 Parganas district]] about 20km from main Kolkata. In January 2016 the accused were sentenced to death and life imprisonment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kamduni gangrape case verdict: Kolkata court sentences 3 convicts to death, life imprisonment to 3 others|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kamduni-gangrape-case-verdict-death-penality-for-3-convicts-life-term-for-3-others-306275-2016-01-30}}</ref> | ||
== Incident == | == Incident == | ||
At around 8: | The victim, a second year BA student of Derozio College named Shipra Ghosh, was walking home along the Kamduni BDO Office Road in the afternoon, when she was abducted and taken inside a factory where she was gang-raped by eight men. After raping her, the perpetrators tore apart her legs up to the navel, slit her throat and dumped her body into a nearby field.<ref>{{Cite web|title=West Bengal: Kamduni victims kin want death for rapists|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/west-bengal-kamduni-victims-kin-want-death-for-rapists/1/582405.html|access-date=2016-07-20}}</ref> | ||
At around 8:30pm local time, the brothers of the victim discovered the body of their sister alongside a ''bheri'' in the At Bigha region of Kharibari in Rajarhat.<ref name="es20130608-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4272&boxid=22926640|title=তরুণীর দেহ উদ্ধার , সন্দেহ ধর্ষণ করে খুন|date=8 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> At around 9:45pm, an altercation and subsequent skirmish occurred between the villagers and the police when the latter tried to recover the body of the victim. The crowd damaged three police vehicles. At around 2am, a large police contingent recovered the victim's body from the villagers and sent it to Barasat for post mortem.<ref name="es20130609-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4322&boxid=22547468|title=প্রকাশনামেয়ে হারিয়ে ফুঁসছে বারাসত|date=9 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> | |||
On the evening of June 15, a contingent of the [[Indian Reserve Battalion]] started flag march in Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4493&boxid=3436218|title=কামদুনির প্রতিবাদ থামতেই কি গ্রামে হাজির আধা সেনা|last=Das|first=Atanu|date=17 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> In spite of the paramilitary vigil a team of Citizen's Forum visited Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-2">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4496&boxid=31446125|title=কামদুনির প্রতিবাদ থামতেই কি গ্রামে হাজির আধা সেনা|last=Das|first=Atanu|date=17 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> Several women's organizations, including Matangini Mahila Samiti, Maitri, Manabi, Ahalya and Chetana, visited Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-2"/> | On the evening of June 15, a contingent of the [[Indian Reserve Battalion]] started flag march in Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4493&boxid=3436218|title=কামদুনির প্রতিবাদ থামতেই কি গ্রামে হাজির আধা সেনা|last=Das|first=Atanu|date=17 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> In spite of the paramilitary vigil a team of Citizen's Forum visited Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-2">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4496&boxid=31446125|title=কামদুনির প্রতিবাদ থামতেই কি গ্রামে হাজির আধা সেনা|last=Das|first=Atanu|date=17 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> Several women's organizations, including Matangini Mahila Samiti, Maitri, Manabi, Ahalya and Chetana, visited Kamduni.<ref name="es20130617-2"/> | ||
On 17 June, [[Mamata Banerjee]], the Chief Minister of [[West Bengal]] | On 17 June, [[Mamata Banerjee]], the Chief Minister of [[West Bengal]] visited Kamduni. She promised that charge sheet would be produced against the arrested within 15 days of the incident and that her government would plead for the capital punishment of the culprits. <ref name="es20130618-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4509&boxid=15223171|title=দোষীদের ফাঁসির আবেদনই জানাব , আশ্বাস মমতার|last=Sengupta|first=Manipushpak|date=18 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> | ||
== | == Arrest and prosecuation == | ||
The residents of Kamduni caught hold of Ansar Ali, the prime accused, and handed him over to the police.<ref name="es20130609-1"/> After interrogation, he confessed to have committed the crime along with four others. Five persons were named in the FIR. Based on that, the district police arrested three persons in the early hours of 8 June.<ref name="es20130609-1"/> | The residents of Kamduni caught hold of Ansar Ali, the prime accused, and handed him over to the police.<ref name="es20130609-1"/> After interrogation, he confessed to have committed the crime along with four others. Five persons were named in the FIR. Based on that, the district police arrested three persons in the early hours of 8 June.<ref name="es20130609-1"/> | ||
The case is being investigated by the CID, West Bengal. On 16 June, the CID officers took the eight accused to Kamduni to reconstruct the incident amid tight security by the police and Indian Reserve Battalion. For 45 minutes, the accused recounted how they had gang raped and then murdered the victim, throwing her body over the set wall afterwards.<ref name="es20130617-2" /> Even fifteen days after the incident, no charge sheet was filed. On 22 June, Ansar Ali was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.<ref name="es20130622-1">{{cite news|url=http://eisamay.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20718830.cms|title=কামদুনি-কাণ্ডে চার্জশিট জমা পড়ল না ১৫ দিনে|date=22 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref name="abpananda20130623-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.abpananda.newsbullet.in/state/34/37935|title=১৫ দিন পরেও চার্জশিট পেশ হল না|date=23 June 2013|work=ABP Ananda|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624221508/http://www.abpananda.newsbullet.in/state/34/37935|archive-date=24 June 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The accused and State Govt. want the legal proceedings shifted from Barasat court.<ref>{{cite news|title=কামদুনি মামলায় অভিযুক্তদের সমর্থন করল রাজ্য|url=http://zeenews.india.com/bengali/zila/kamduni-case_14791.html|access-date=21 July 2013|newspaper=24 Ghanta|date=20 July 2013}}</ref> | |||
The case is being investigated by the CID, West Bengal. On 16 June, the CID officers took the eight accused to Kamduni to reconstruct the incident amid tight security by the police and Indian Reserve Battalion. For 45 minutes, the accused recounted how they had gang raped and then murdered the victim, throwing her body over the set wall afterwards.<ref name="es20130617-2" /> Even fifteen days after the incident, no charge sheet was filed. On 22 June, Ansar Ali was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.<ref name="es20130622-1">{{cite news|url=http://eisamay.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20718830.cms|title=কামদুনি-কাণ্ডে চার্জশিট জমা পড়ল না ১৫ দিনে|date=22 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref name="abpananda20130623-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.abpananda.newsbullet.in/state/34/37935|title=১৫ দিন পরেও চার্জশিট পেশ হল না|date=23 June 2013|work=ABP Ananda|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|archive-url=https://archive. | |||
Finally in January 2016, the accused were sentenced - some were sentenced to death and others to life imprisonment. Additional Sessions Judge Sanchita Sarkar handed out a death sentence to Ansar Ali, Saiful Ali and Aminul Ali, while Emanul Islam, Aminur Islam and Bhola Naskar were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of Shipra Ghosh on June 7, 2013. | Finally in January 2016, the accused were sentenced - some were sentenced to death and others to life imprisonment. Additional Sessions Judge Sanchita Sarkar handed out a death sentence to Ansar Ali, Saiful Ali and Aminul Ali, while Emanul Islam, Aminur Islam and Bhola Naskar were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of Shipra Ghosh on June 7, 2013. | ||
== Protests == | == Protests == | ||
From the early morning of 8 June, the Kamduni residents protested afor exemplary punishment for the culprits. [[Jyotipriya Mallick]], the Minister for Food and Supplies met the villagers and promised job for the victim's elder brother, which was promptly rejected by the villagers.<ref name="es20130609-1"/> The protesters were also visited by Haji Nurul Islam, the M.P. from Bashirhat and Nirmal Ghosh, the President of North 24 Parganas District Trinamool Congress. When the former blamed the CPI(M) for this crime, his car was damaged by the protesters.<ref name="es20130609-2">{{cite news|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4322&boxid=2242915|title=নারীশিক্ষার এক শিখা নিভে গেল|date=9 June 2013|work=Ei Samay|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata}}</ref> Protests continued until July 4, demanding capital punishment for the perpetrators.<ref name="abp12062013-1">{{cite news|date=12 June 2013|title=বিচার চেয়ে জেলা সদরে পাড়ি দিল কামদুনি|language=Bengali|work=Anandabazar Patrika|location=Kolkata|url=http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1130612/12pgn1.html|url-status=dead|access-date=23 June 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624221452/http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1130612/12pgn1.html|archive-date=24 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="abp20130613-1">{{cite news|url=http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1130613/13pgn1.html|title=সাহায্য নয় শাস্তি চাই, মমতাকে কামদুনি|date=13 June 2013|work=Anandabazar Patrika|language=Bengali|access-date=23 June 2013|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821170322/http://anandabazar.com/archive/1130613/13pgn1.html|archive-date=21 August 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="abp20130705-1">{{cite news|title=সিআইডি-র কুশপুতুল পোড়াল কামদুনি|url=http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1130705/5pgn3.html|access-date=7 July 2013|newspaper=Anandabazar Patrika|date=5 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822231911/http://anandabazar.com/archive/1130705/5pgn3.html|archive-date=22 August 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> | |||
From the early morning of 8 June, the Kamduni residents | |||
== | Several human rights groups participated in the protests as well, submitting memoranda to the police and demanding access to political decisionmakers.<ref name="ht12062013-1">{{cite news|date=12 June 2013|title=Kolkata wakes up to Barasat protests|work=Hindustan Times|location=Kolkata|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Kolkata/Kolkata-wakes-up-to-Barasat-protests/Article1-1075327.aspx|url-status=dead|access-date=16 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613072623/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Kolkata/Kolkata-wakes-up-to-Barasat-protests/Article1-1075327.aspx|archive-date=13 June 2013}}</ref> The lawyers of Barasat Bar took out a procession in protest against the crime.<ref name="abp12062013-1" /> The body declared that no lawyer in Barasat would stand for the accused. In the evening a hundreds of residents brought out a candle light procession in Baguiati, Kolkata.<ref name="abp12062013-1" /> On 18 June, around 400 government employees of the Writers' Building marched around the Writers' Building in protest against the Kamduni gang rape and murder. Eminent intellectuals including, filmmaker [[Aparna Sen]], Shankha Ghosh Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Mrinal Sen, Mahashweta Devi and Tarun Majumder also showed their support for the victim and demanded justice.<ref name="es20130622-2">{{cite news|last1=Sarkar|first1=Koushik|last2=Sengupta|first2=Manipushpak|date=22 June 2013|title=মহামিছিল বার্তা দিল মমতাকে|language=Bengali|work=Ei Samay|location=Kolkata|url=http://www.epaper.eisamay.com/Details.aspx?id=4574&boxid=323931|access-date=23 June 2013}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||