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Almost a week after a group of men assaulted, tied up and paraded several Muslim persons in West Bengal’s Durgapur district while accusing them of being Bangladeshi intruders smuggling cattle, Parijat Ganguly, the BJP youth leader who led the brutal attack, remains at large.
The incident took place on July 31 at Gammon Bridge in DPL Coke Oven Colony, barely 200 metres from Coke Oven police station in Durgapur town. In videos that have since gone viral, a mob can be seen assaulting and tying up five men and accusing them of illegally smuggling cows. One of the men had the rope tied around his neck while the others had their hands tied together.
Commissioner of Asansol-Durgapur Police Sunil Kumar Chaudhary has said that four to five cows were being transported from Asuria market in Bankura district for agricultural purposes. Four accused persons, identified as Kiran Man, Basudeb Badyakar, Anish Bhattacharya and Dipak Das, have been arrested so far, while Ganguly remains ‘untraceable’.
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While roughing up the alleged cattle smugglers, the group of ‘vigilantes’ forced them to chant Jai Sri Ram and warned them against smuggling cattle again. The men were also made to do sit-ups while holding their ears. The vigilantes then proceeded to ‘rescue’ the cattle from the truck in which they were being transported, parked near the scene of the assault.
Ganguly can be seen in the videos leading the group, wearing a pink kurta and dark sunglasses. He is first seen rounding up two older men, aggressively questioning them about where they were from and on whose behalf they were allegedly ‘selling the cattle’. The men kept shaking their heads repeatedly, insisting they were doing it for no one. The man was then seen instructing his compatriots to tie the alleged smugglers up.
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