TMC Alleges Sexual Assault on Minor by CRPF Jawan, Writes to Top Poll Official
TMC said it has lodged an official complaint with the Tarakeshwar Police Station, and an FIR has been registered.
TMC leaders Derek O Brien (L) and Bratya Basu at a press meet at Trinamool Bhavan, in Kolkata, Monday, April 5, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien has written to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer alleging that a CRPF jawan in Hooghly has perpetrated “gruesome sexual assault on a minor girl”.
TMC has alleged that the crime took place in Tarakeswar in Hooghly district. Tarakeshwar is among the constituencies that have gone to polls on Tuesday, April 6, in West Bengal.
Trinamool Congress MP Derek O Brien. (File Photo)
TMC s Derek O Brien writes to EC over sexual assault of minor in Hoogly by CRPF jawan ANI | Updated: Apr 06, 2021 23:40 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 6 (ANI): Trinamool Congress MP Derek O Brien on Tuesday wrote to the Election Commission regarding the alleged sexual assault of a minor girl by a CRPF jawan in West Bengal s Hoogly mere hours before the third phase polling began, calling it a gruesome and heart-breaking .
In his letter, O Brien requested a detailed investigation be initiated at the earliest against the perpetrator. In a gruesome and heart-breaking turn of events, the very CRPF that has been deployed to poll-bound Tarakeshwar, Hooghly to maintain the law and order, has become responsible for brutal and vicious attack on a minor, school-going girl, the letter read.