Minor girl dies after gangrape, son of local TMC leader caught

A minor girl died after she was allegedly gang-raped at a birthday party at Hanskhali in West Bengal’s Nadia district. The police gave this information on Sunday. The girl’s family claimed that the main accused is the son of a Trinamool Congress panchayat member, who has been arrested for further investigation, he said. The parents of the minor, a Class IX student, lodged a complaint against the accused at Hanskhali police station on Saturday, four days after the incident. According to the complaint, the girl had gone to the accused’s house on Monday afternoon to attend her birthday party, but she returned home in a sick condition and died shortly after.

Our daughter was bleeding and had severe abdominal pain after coming back from the party at the local TMC leader’s son’s house, and died before we could take her to the hospital. The girl’s mother told reporters, “From the sequence of events and after talking to the people present at the party, we are sure that the accused and his friends had gang-raped her.”