TNN | Jun 7, 2012, 06.04AM IST
TAMLUK (EAST MIDNAPORE): A surgeon who performed the marathon autopsies in the Nandigram killings is living in terror after being allegedly threatened by Trinamool Congress leaders to alter the post-mortem report in a suspected rape and murder of a minor girl in Tamluk, East Midnapore.
Dr Pradip Das says that Trinamool men ransacked his home and threatened to kill him on Tuesday because he resisted their attempts to force him to change his report. Das says that he made SOS calls to the police when the attack was on and later met district officials, but no one helped him. Scared and frustrated, he has decided to resign. The district administration, however, accuses him of insubordination and neglect of duty.
The alleged murder victim is 11-year-old Puja Bhuiyan, who worked as a domestic help in the house of local schoolteacher Pranab Roy for four years. Roy brought her to Tamluk district hospital on May 23, and told doctors she had fallen unconscious after taking poison to commit suicide. Puja did not survive.
Das, who has been doing autopsies for 17 years, examined the body and found some disturbing signs. "I found signs of habitual sex and marks of partial throttling on her neck and face. Moreover, an examination of her stomach suggested that the poisoning was post-mortem, meaning that someone forced the poison down her throat after her death. Since the girl was a minor, there is no question of consensual sex. This indicates she was raped and murdered," said Das.
Puja's father Ananta Bhuiyan lodged an FIR with the police on June 2 and Roy, who teaches at Ram Tarak High School, was arrested. Ananta alleges that the teacher tried to bribe him to withdraw the case. On June 4, the surgeon says that he asked a hospital employee, Saroj Biswas, to send the file of Puja's autopsy to his home. "I had to prepare the final report. Since I don't have an office to work from, I make reports at home," said Das. Biswas reportedly did not send the file and Das got it from another employee on June 5.
"I immediately started getting calls from Trinamool leaders, including Chanchal Khanra, who 'inquired' about the report. Since it's a sensitive matter, I lied that I had not called for the file. Then, another Trinamool leader called to say I was lying. They tried to persuade me to change the report in favour of the teacher. I told them I wouldn't do it," Das told TOI.
At 8.20pm, a mob of around 50 hoodlums, led by Trinamool leader Chanchal Khanra, barged into his house, the surgeon says. "They ransacked the house. I was in the bathroom then and called the local police station but no help arrived," said Das, adding that he called up several officers of the district administration but no one took any action.
The Trinamool denies the charge. "None of my partymen intervened in the murder case. The doctor is irregular at work and he refused to conduct post-mortem of the bodies on Tuesday despite requests from different quarters. It was perhaps the relatives of the deceased who ransacked his house," said Chanchal Khanra.
SP Ashok Prasad acknowledged receiving a complaint from Das but said that no one has been arrested.
Link: Doctor rape report, say ‘Trinamool’ goons
Dr Pradip Das says that Trinamool men ransacked his home and threatened to kill him on Tuesday because he resisted their attempts to force him to change his report. Das says that he made SOS calls to the police when the attack was on and later met district officials, but no one helped him. Scared and frustrated, he has decided to resign. The district administration, however, accuses him of insubordination and neglect of duty.
The alleged murder victim is 11-year-old Puja Bhuiyan, who worked as a domestic help in the house of local schoolteacher Pranab Roy for four years. Roy brought her to Tamluk district hospital on May 23, and told doctors she had fallen unconscious after taking poison to commit suicide. Puja did not survive.
Das, who has been doing autopsies for 17 years, examined the body and found some disturbing signs. "I found signs of habitual sex and marks of partial throttling on her neck and face. Moreover, an examination of her stomach suggested that the poisoning was post-mortem, meaning that someone forced the poison down her throat after her death. Since the girl was a minor, there is no question of consensual sex. This indicates she was raped and murdered," said Das.
Puja's father Ananta Bhuiyan lodged an FIR with the police on June 2 and Roy, who teaches at Ram Tarak High School, was arrested. Ananta alleges that the teacher tried to bribe him to withdraw the case. On June 4, the surgeon says that he asked a hospital employee, Saroj Biswas, to send the file of Puja's autopsy to his home. "I had to prepare the final report. Since I don't have an office to work from, I make reports at home," said Das. Biswas reportedly did not send the file and Das got it from another employee on June 5.
"I immediately started getting calls from Trinamool leaders, including Chanchal Khanra, who 'inquired' about the report. Since it's a sensitive matter, I lied that I had not called for the file. Then, another Trinamool leader called to say I was lying. They tried to persuade me to change the report in favour of the teacher. I told them I wouldn't do it," Das told TOI.
At 8.20pm, a mob of around 50 hoodlums, led by Trinamool leader Chanchal Khanra, barged into his house, the surgeon says. "They ransacked the house. I was in the bathroom then and called the local police station but no help arrived," said Das, adding that he called up several officers of the district administration but no one took any action.
The Trinamool denies the charge. "None of my partymen intervened in the murder case. The doctor is irregular at work and he refused to conduct post-mortem of the bodies on Tuesday despite requests from different quarters. It was perhaps the relatives of the deceased who ransacked his house," said Chanchal Khanra.
SP Ashok Prasad acknowledged receiving a complaint from Das but said that no one has been arrested.
Link: Doctor rape report, say ‘Trinamool’ goons
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