Debajyoti Chakraborty, TNN | Aug 9, 2012, 02.48AM IST
BURNPUR: Bengal's dubious distinction as an unsafe state for women hit a new low on Wednesday when a seven-year-old was found raped and murdered in Burnpur, barely 400 metres from her school. Her little things — shoes, pencil box and a question paper — were strewn about the body, along with empty bottles of liquor.
Puspa Thakur, a Class-II student of Burnpur Girls' High School, had been missing since Tuesday morning. Around 9am on Wednesday a rag-picker girl found her body, with the throat slit, in a drain behind the Iisco Steel Plant (ISP) quarters on Hospital Road.
The girl informed the locals of Nabaghanti who immediately went on the rampage at the school and ransacked at least four classrooms. The mob demanded that the ISP management visit the spot at once and alleged that the area turns into anti-socials' den after dark every day. These criminals allegedly occupy the unused quarters of ISP. Police had to lathicharge to disperse the mob and in retaliation, the mob hurled stones on the policemen.
The mob got even more violent after the girl's post-mortem report arrived from the Asansol subdivisional hospital. It revealed 11 injuries on the girl's body and mentioned that she had been killed after being raped. As the body was brought from the hospital, thousands of men and women gheraoed Hirapur police station, demanding that the guilty be arrested.
Police had to lathi-charge again to clear the mob. But the agitators had by then closed down shops and stopped bus services.
The local police brought a sniffer dog from the RPF in the afternoon, but it failed to give any leads. Subrata Ganguly, the ADCP (West) of Asansol-Durgapur Police, said probe has been started. "We have asked the agitators for 24 hours to arrest the culprits," he said. No arrests have been made yet.
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Puspa Thakur, a Class-II student of Burnpur Girls' High School, had been missing since Tuesday morning. Around 9am on Wednesday a rag-picker girl found her body, with the throat slit, in a drain behind the Iisco Steel Plant (ISP) quarters on Hospital Road.
The girl informed the locals of Nabaghanti who immediately went on the rampage at the school and ransacked at least four classrooms. The mob demanded that the ISP management visit the spot at once and alleged that the area turns into anti-socials' den after dark every day. These criminals allegedly occupy the unused quarters of ISP. Police had to lathicharge to disperse the mob and in retaliation, the mob hurled stones on the policemen.
The mob got even more violent after the girl's post-mortem report arrived from the Asansol subdivisional hospital. It revealed 11 injuries on the girl's body and mentioned that she had been killed after being raped. As the body was brought from the hospital, thousands of men and women gheraoed Hirapur police station, demanding that the guilty be arrested.
Police had to lathi-charge again to clear the mob. But the agitators had by then closed down shops and stopped bus services.
The local police brought a sniffer dog from the RPF in the afternoon, but it failed to give any leads. Subrata Ganguly, the ADCP (West) of Asansol-Durgapur Police, said probe has been started. "We have asked the agitators for 24 hours to arrest the culprits," he said. No arrests have been made yet.
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