Prabhas Mondal, the main accused in the Baruipur minor rape and murder case, was shot dead while he tried to escape 'from police custody' during the reconstruction of the crime scene.
The accused was taken to Suryapur in Baruipur at around 12:45 a.m. on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday for the reconstruction of the crime scene.
While trying to reconstruct the crime scene after midnight, Mondal tried to snatch the firearm and escape. Police retaliated in self-defence after the accused fired one round.
He was rushed to Baruipur Hospital after sustaining bullet injuries but was declared dead.
Prabhas Mondal, the main accused in the Baruipur minor rape and murder case, was shot dead while he tried to escape 'from police custody' during the reconstruction of the crime scene.
The accused was taken to Suryapur in Baruipur at around 12:45 a.m. on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday for the reconstruction of the crime scene.
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While trying to reconstruct the crime scene after midnight, Mondal tried to snatch the firearm and escape. Police retaliated in self-defence after the accused fired one round.
He was rushed to Baruipur Hospital after sustaining bullet injuries but was declared dead.
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The accused was one of the prime suspects in the case and had been seen with the victim in CCTV footage before the alleged rape and murder of the girl.
He was one of the three accused arrested. The two others have been named as Ananda Sardar and Dibakar Sardar.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra criticised the police encounter in an X post, alleging that the incident reflected "jungle law" in West Bengal.
She questioned the circumstances surrounding the encounter and criticised the state administration and the BJP.
"Baruipur rape murder accused Prabhash Mondal killed in encounter! What is going on @WBPolice? Bengalis please welcome new Bengal-Uttar Pradesh 2.0. @BJP4Bengal is no government. This is jungle law," Moitra wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
In a striking reaction, Prabhash Mondal's mother Sandhya Mondal refused to claim the body, saying he had met the consequences of his actions.
"He got what he deserved for what he did," she told reporters after the police informed her of his death early on Wednesday.
She said the police had come to her house, confirmed her son's identity and asked whether she wanted to see him.
"I don't want to see his face. I will not go to claim the body, and nobody from the family will either," she said.
The grieving mother also alleged that her son had long been addicted to intoxicants and had never listened to her advice.
Meanwhile, the police arrested another accused, Kabir Molla, from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district in a joint operation by the STF, Baruipur SOG and the district police.
The police said Molla had been absconding since the crime. He was brought to Baruipur for interrogation, taking the total number of arrests in the rape-murder case to four. Besides Mondal, Anand Sardar and Dibakar Sardar had earlier been arrested.
The body of the girl, who had gone missing on July 4, was found stuffed in a sack in Surjyapur Haat area the next day, triggering a protest by locals who blocked the Baruipur-Joynagar Road, burnt tyres and damaged a few police vehicles, demanding the arrest of the accused persons.
Hours after the girl's body was recovered on Sunday (July 5), a man was beaten to death by angry locals on suspicion of involvement in the girl's death.
Three people were arrested in connection with the rape-murder case. A six-member special investigation team (SIT) was formed to probe the matter.
Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday directed Director General of Police Sidd Nath Gupta to submit a report in the rape-murder case of a minor in Baruipur, and said that the person who was lynched by a mob in the aftermath of the incident was innocent.
Adhikari also said that action will be taken against around 200 identified people, who allegedly vandalised public property, damaged police vehicles and railway tracks during the protest that followed the recovery of the 11-year-old girl's body on Sunday.
Source:- telegraphindia
