KOLKATA, July 15: One more person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the lynching of a youth on July 5 at Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district after the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.
The arrested person has been identified as Sakim Lashkar. He will be presented at a district court in South 24 Parganas later in the day, and the public prosecutor will seek his police custody. With the arrest of Lashkar, the total number of arrests in the case had increased to eight.
Already, police have registered cases against the seven persons arrested earlier under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, relating to unlawful assembly, rioting, obstructing the work of a public servant, wilfully causing hurt to a public person and murder by lynching.
The same charges will be slapped on the person who was arrested on Wednesday morning.
Three cases have been registered by the police in the Baruipur incident, and separate investigations are underway. The first case is in relation to the alleged rape and murder of the minor girl. The second case is on the mob-lynching of the youth. The third case is about the massive violence in the area, where property like railway tracks and police vehicles were vandalised, and police personnel were attacked and injured. Already, 42 persons have been arrested in this connection.
In the first case, that is on the rape and murder of the minor girl, four persons have been arrested so far. One of them, Pravas Mondal, was killed in an encounter as he was trying to escape from police custody by snatching the firearm of an escorting cop. (IANS)
