Both survivors have sought to be impleaded within the post-poll violence plea.
Kolkata:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the plea of two gang rape survivors from West Bengal who desire a Special Investigation Team or CBI to probe their circumstances.
One of the survivors is a minor from the scheduled caste group, allegedly gang-raped in Murshidabad district on May 9. The different is a 60-year-old from East Midnapore district, allegedly gang-raped on May 4 in entrance of her 6-year-old grandson.
Both have claimed they had been victims of politically motivated violence.
The two alleged gang rape survivors have sought to be impleaded in a case that’s already within the Supreme Court on publish ballot violence in Bengal.
In it, petitioner primary is the youthful brother of Abhijit Sarkar who was allegedly crushed to loss of life by a mob of Trinamool supporters outdoors his own residence in Kolkata on May 2, the day votes had been being counted within the state.
The second petitioner is the spouse of Haran Adhikari of Sonarur in Kolkata’s southern outskirts who was allegedly thrashed by Trinamool supporters reportedly led by an elected chief on May 14 and died two days later.
The gang rape survivors have vividly described their plight of their functions.
The minor woman has stated not solely was she gang-raped, however she was additionally left in a jungle to die. The subsequent day, a neighborhood Trinamool chief allegedly got here to her home and threatened to burn it down if she dared to complain to the police.
In her software to Supreme Court, the 60-year-old survivor stated, “….never have such cruel crimes being committed against a citizen for her family’s participation in the democratic process.”
She has additionally said that “while the rape was committed by five accused who are all named by the rape survivor and when the rape is confirmed by a medical report, the police has deliberately chosen to name only one of the five accused in the FIR.”
