Key Points
Villagers gathered to watch as the sabha condemned her romance as a dirty act and a crime..
This and other kangaroo courts operate in an ungovernable belt of West Bengal where villagers fear local party goons, police shrug helplessly, politicians look the other way, and a code of silence keeps everyone complicit...
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressedthe incident in the Rajya Sabha, drawing parallels with theSandeshkhali case, where a TMC leader was accused of terrorising villagers and sexually assaulting women...
Villagers want to avoid police for more than one reason and feel the powerfulpersonin the village can bring justice quickly and thus they trust suchinsaaf sabhasbut this is the first time we have seen such a video and fighting such a case, saidJanardhan Prasad Singha, assistant public prosecutor at theAdditional Chief Judicial Magistrate court in Islampur, which covers Chopra...
Meanwhile, on 8 July, the West Bengal police booked BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya CPI-Mstate secretary Mohammed Salim for defamation, obscenity, insult to the modesty of a woman, and other sections after MN filed a complaint against them for circulating the video of the flogging...
