West Bengal Police rejects claims of brutal assault of CJP worker’ father
The Bengal Police have rejected claims of brutal assault on Janab Malik, the father of SK Abdul, a CJP volunteer from Bankura district who allegedly died two days ago from injuries suffered during an attack by alleged BJP workers. The police claimed that, hours after the CJP leadership threatened an intensified stir should the Government not take stringent action against the perpetrators of the crime.
The police acknowledged that there was a brawl but said that Janab Mafik sustained a “minor injury” requiring a single stitch. The police said that the alleged ‘victim’ “got self-admitted to Burdwan Medical College after experiencing severe blood pressure fluctuations” on Monday morning, adding “no life-threatening injury was found by doctors who treated him.”
The statement also iterated that “baseless and false claims began circulating online alleging that Mafik (Janab Malik) had died from a ‘brutal physical assault’.”
The police statement came almost in tandem with an ultimatum issued by CJP national leader Ashutosh Ranka, who, along with a team, visited the house of the ‘victim’ before issuing a warning that massive movement would be started if all the ten perpetrators of the alleged offence were not prosecuted. The police had arrested eight out of the ten accused named in the FIR, sources said.
Abdul had earlier complained that he had gone to the local Karisunda Paschimpara Primary School to inspect for himself the infrastructural facilities there following a “school theek karo (repair the schools” programme launched by the national CJP leadership.
After returning from the school, “threats started coming to me and then came the attack… they came to my house and attacked me… as my father tried to save me, he was brutally assaulted… later he died in the hospital.”
“We have been told that the local BJP MLA and his cronies are terrorising the people… they have attacked and killed the father of our volunteer here who just wanted to improve the facilities of the school that he read in… if this is not stopped and if the accused are not arrested then a sustained movement will ensue,” Rana said.
