With justice still remaining elusive in the infamous Kamduni rape-and-murder case the people of the said village in the northern fringes of Kolkata have decided to approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi for relief.
A team of the villagers have even met Bengal BJP president Rahul Sinha to help them in their efforts to meet the Prime Minister.
“This Government has not only failed to provide us justice but also it is trying to delay it as some vested interests are involved in the case,” Moushumi Koyal an activist in the village who met Sinha said alleging how the police and the prosecution were delaying the case.
“The case has now been transferred from fast track court to a normal criminal court and the case is getting delayed” said Bharati Mutsuddi an activist who met the villagers along with State BJP leader Samik Bhattacharya on Friday. Exactly a year ago a college goer was brutally raped and murdered by six people. The news hit the national headlines for its sheer brutality. The ferocity of the crime was such that the alleged rapists at Kamduni had torn apart her legs from two sides after committing the crime. This in apparent bid to show their anger at her resistance. The incident had taken place barely a few months after the dreaded Nirbhaya case that shook the country.
Till the dreaded crime took place here Kamduni was popular for a different reason as Amitabh Bachchan starer Saudagar and many other Bengali films were shot at this village — full of natural water bodies — through out the 1970s and thereafter.
The incident generated such heat and dust that the locals even entered into heated arguments with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee when she reached the place ten days after the crime was committed. The locals now allege that the reason behind the delaying of the case is the proximity of some of the perpetrators of the crime to the ruling TMC.
“The police and the prosecution are intentionally delaying the case so that the evidences can be tampered with in the mean time,” said Moushumi Koyal, the face of the agitation adding, “we hope the Prime Minister will come to our help.” She said, “Modi will definitely come to our help as he is a man of integrity. We want him to put pressure on the State Government to give us justice. The perpetrators of the offence must get exemplary punishment or else others will be encouraged to commit such crimes with strong backing from the people in power.”