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Minor girl kidnapped and murdered in Bengal; locals set police camp on fire, BJP slams Mamata govt
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Minor girl kidnapped and murdered in Bengal; locals set police camp on fire, BJP slams Mamata govt

| @indiablooms | 05 Oct 2024, 01:32 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: A minor girl has been allegedly kidnapped and murdered in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas, sparking anger among locals amid the public fury over the RG Kar case, media reports said.

Police said a minor in Mahishamari left home for a coaching class on Friday and did not return prompting her family to file a missing complaint.

At 3:30 am on Saturday, her body was found on a field with multiple injuries.

People in the area started protesting, vandalising and torched the police camp. Police have deployed a large team to prevent escalation of the situation which is still volatile in the area.

Police said the probe was initiated immediately after the complaint.

Mostakin Sardar, 19, has been arrested in connection with the incident, police officials said. Police said rape can't be confirmed until the post-mortem report comes.

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has lashed out at the government accusing police of not taking the complaint initially citing the accused's religion.

BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya posted on X, "In another shocking incident in West Bengal, an 11 year old minor Hindu girl, is abducted, brutally raped and murdered, while she was returning back from tuition, in the Kripakhali area, under Kul­tali police station. The villagers found her lifeless body from the riverbank.

"Angry villagers attacked the Kultali PS, since they refused to take the complaint because the rapist(s) is apparently a Muslim and WB Police is reluctant to act, lest they upset Home Minister Mamata Banerjee. During Durga Puja, as West Bengal celebrates Devi Shakti, women and girls are unsafe. Unless Asuri Shaktis, at the helm of the State's affair, are not defeated, crimes against women will continue, unabated. Mamata Banerjee has to GO for women to be safe in Bengal."

West Bengal has been on boil for almost two months after a trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered at Kolkata's state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The Kolkata Police came under massive public ire over the alleged cover-up of the incident that has triggered widespread protests across the country.

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