7 villagers killed 14 injured at Lalgarh finger raised on CPIM cadres

Another shameful day in West Bengal. After Nandigram(14th July 2007) its Lalgarh in West Midnapore district, where at least 7(8 said HM P. Chidambaram) villagers killed and 18 injured in a firing. The incident occurred this morning when some villagers gathered to protest the demand of join CMP cadres to volunteer, and the demand was made from CPM supported armed cadres.
TMC has won the local Gram Panchayet election last time in Netai village at Belatikri gram panchayat in Lalgarh police station where the incident occurred. But a few months ago CPM made a operation here named “Lalgarh Abhijan” and every thing started changing.
As the villagers said “A few months ago CMP made a camp for their cadres at Netai. The camp was made in the house owned by a CPM leader Rathin Dandapath, who is currently staying outside with his family. After the camp started they(harmads) started torturing the villagers. They asked the villagers to provide them food, wash their clothes and guard them at night.” That was not enough, “Last week the cadres/harmads asked the villagers for at least one young member from each family to join their armed camp and take training from them”.
house of Rathin Dandapath attact on villagers at netai in lalgarh
So they gathered at the camp to protest, when the situation started going out of control for the cadersthey asked their extra team for help and started firing on the villagers. 3 People died at the spot, 2 died at Lalgarh hospital and 2 died at Midnapur hospital.
Nearest police station and CRPF camp is just 3.5 km. from Netai village, but no police man reached even after 4 hours of the incident. Reporters reached there in two hours but no police after 4 hrs.
People who died in the firing
Sourav Ghoray(25)
Shamanada Ghoroy(65)
Swaraswati Ghory(40)
Arup Patra(20)
Dhiren Sen(35)
Fulkumari Maiti(28)
Dhubaprasad Gouswami(45)

3 Responses so far

  1. Tapas says:

    33 years ……still CPM has been continuing torture by HARMAD BAHINI ….. their thoughts are unchanged, that bullet can solve everything and would win people support,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it distinctly shows CPM’s intelligence…….they have lost everything…………… :x

  2. asok kumar guha says:

    There is a big conspiracy behind the incident took place on 7th.instant at Netai village,Lalgarh and big sots are also involved,they kept police silent from action.otherwise timely arrival of police seriousness of the incident could be averted.Ultimate intention is to terrorise the area and its surrounding to show political muscles by Harmad of CPI(M) Party.Who ever going to investigate the case try to find out the conspirators and deal the matter fearlessly,otherwise almighty god will not spare .Now it is Inspector-in-Charge ,Lalgarh PS who is going to be the first goat to be slaughtered after 4 days of the incident,when the matter has been placed before the High court judges,Kolkata,before that they all were unconscious.

    • Rabin Biswas says:

      it took 12 hrs for police to reach there, as they said on court that “the first report was taken at 8 pm that day and the incident occurred at 9 am” – says it all.
      people like us living in urban areas can’t even imagine what is going at “Jangal Mahal”.
      My relatives live there and my cousin is in college, she said that their college remains close for about 20 days a month for Bandh. Now imagine what they learn and how they will survive in the future.

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