A Bharatiya Janata Party booth president, Tapas Das, has been booked on Saturday, following a complaint by a woman that on Friday night a group of miscreants broke into her house and assaulted her.
The incident has been reported from Nandigram — West Bengal’s political hotspot.
A 32-year-old homemaker from Nandigram in East Midnapore was brutally assaulted twice by neighbours as she objected to the spillage of their drained water into her courtyard.
The attackers with alleged ties with BJP beat the woman, stripped and then abandoned her 300 meters away from home after a rape attempt.
The injured woman has been admitted to Nandigram Super Specialty Hospital.
The survivor alleged, when she was at home with her son and daughter on Friday night, around thirty to forty people broke down the door, dragged her into the village, stripped and beat her. They dragged her a long way and even tried to kill her. They fled when police arrived.
The woman said: “We were once with BJP but joined Trinamool before the recent elections. A few days ago, they beat me up and molested me in the village after which I had filed a police complaint. Friday’s incident was an attempt to force me to withdraw the complaint.”
BJP, however, claimed that a family dispute was being given political colour.
BJP’s Nandigram I Block convener Abhijit Maiti said: “We condemn the attack on the woman…. However, this incident has no connection with BJP. There is a conspiracy to falsely implicate us.”
Reacting to this, Nandigram TMC functionary Sheikh Sufiyan said: “The woman’s crime was that she and her husband had left BJP and joined Trinamool…. We demand strict punishment for the miscreants.”
Saying that a TMC delegation would visit Nandigram on Sunday, former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh demanded swift arrest of all the accused.
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