Kolkata: A rape-murder accused, who had been on the run, was shot dead by police in an encounter in North Dinajpur of West Bengal early Monday. The deceased, Dilip Roy, is the fourth victim of extra-judicial killings after BJP came to power in the state six months ago.
He was absconding after allegedly raping and killing a 13-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found without clothes at Kulik forest in Raiganj on November 5 after she remained missing for two days. At around 3 am on Monday, the cops received a tip-off about his presence at Gouri village and launched a hunt for him.
They however claimed that Dilip suddenly opened fire on them after getting chased by them. The accused was later gunned down in retaliation. The body was taken to Raiganj Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem.
Defending the latest encounter, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said at Digha in East Midnapore, “We have zero tolerance for rape-murder accused, drug smugglers and infiltrators. Is it the job of the police to keep weapons in pocket? No one will be spared.”
Diamond Harbour Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee however slammed the BJP-rule for the rise in extra judicial killings. He posted on X-handle, “Encounter after encounter, yet rapes continue unabated. This is the grim reality of the BJP’s much advertised Jungle Raj model,”
Mr Banerjee added, “In yet another horrifying incident, today again an *eight year old girl was allegedly abducted from a Kali Mandir in Bhatar, Purba Bardhaman and raped.” Meanwhile, Canning West MLA Pareshram Das, who now belongs to Mamata All India Trinamool Congress, was arrested by the police from the Kolkata Airport in a rape case.
He was about to catch a Mumbai-bound flight in the afternoon. A special operations group of the Baruipur police district in South 24 Parganas caught him. Mr Das was booked in the case on September 5. He will be produced at the court on Tuesday.
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