Dead girl’s parents give minister’s wife ‘clean chit’ after kangaroo trial

TAMLUK: The parents of a 16-year-old girl, who was found dead at state water resources minister Soumen Mahapatra's home on September 25, withdrew their police complaint against the minister's wife under "political pressure" on Saturday after they were summoned before a kangaroo court and threatened with a social boycott.

Police claim Mithu Bera, who worked as a domestic help at the house in Panskura, committed suicide. But her parents accused Sumana Mahapatra, the minister's wife, of torturing and sexually abusing the girl in a complaint filed a couple of days ago at East Midnapore SP Sukesh Jain's office. They also insisted on a probe into Mithu's "unnatural death". The minister was away in Nadia the day the girl died. But Sumana, their son and daughter were at home.

Since then, however, Khokon Chandra and Saraswati Bera claimed they were under intense pressure to take back the complaint. Saraswati said her husband was tortured, too. "We have to live here. So, we decided to withdraw the complaint," Saraswati told TOI. "My family members and I were put under pressure. We were physically abused. My husband and my brother-in-law were tortured," she added.

The above is a good example of how the rich and powerful force the poor to withdraw FIRs by either threats of incentives.

The High Court/Supreme Court should interfere and prevent the FIR from being withdrawn and the case handed over to the CBI for with Mamta Banerjee's party in power, the local police will not find anything wrong with the politician.

Remember, how the CBI was prevented from taking action on the many murders committed by the left front cadres during the left front rule in Bengal. Action was taken only after Mamta Banerjee came to power.

Now, Mamta Banerjee is doing the same thing.

She is allowing her party cadres and her ministers to run amok.