So is this how every news story will be buried? Even after a missing person complaint was filed for the little girl from
#Baruipur, the police allegedly failed to take any effective action. Instead, local residents examined CCTV footage from nearby shops and began searching on their own. Around noon, the child’s body was recovered from a sack. It is alleged that she was raped and murdered before being buried near a pond. According to reports, no personnel from the local police station were present when the body was recovered; only camp staff were at the scene. Local residents, after reviewing CCTV footage, themselves handed over four suspects to the police. It is further alleged that the four accused were released because of political influence.
Public anger then erupted. People took to the streets, vandalised police vehicles and set fires in protest. Having lost faith in the police, an enraged crowd allegedly beat one of the accused to death. The deceased has been identified as Indra Tanti (24). The accused were reportedly not dealt with promptly after being apprehended. Meanwhile, police have allegedly been deployed outside
@MamataOfficial’s residence to prevent her from travelling to Baruipur.
There is fear everywhere. The media that once claimed to speak truth to power now appears far more focused on
@AITCofficial than on the grim state of women’s safety under the
@BJP4India government. Reports suggest that this is already the tenth rape case under the new administration. Yet much of the media remains silent. And why this silence? Is it because the Baruipur victim was a poor village child? Because she was not an educated, upper-middle-class girl from Kolkata’s bhadralok society? Would the outrage have been different had she belonged to a more privileged background? If so, what a shame.
