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Ear chopped off for skipping office during
strike
Thursday February 21, 2013 07:37:50 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
A panchayat
worker's ear was chopped off Thursday, allegedly by supporters of
the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, for not attending
office a day earlier during a nationwide strike.
The attack took place in Jalangi in Murshidabad district, some 200
km from here, when Hazrat Omar arrived at his office on the second
day of the strike called by trade unions and opposed by the
Trinamool Congress.
"I was sitting in the office when some Trinamool goons came and
asked why I was absent from office yesterday (Wednesday). Before I
could reply, they attacked me with a knife and cut a portion of my
left ear," said Omar, undergoing treatment at a hospital.
He said he would would file a police complaint after he was
discharged.
The attack drew sharp criticism from opposition parties.
Adhir Chowdhury, a Congress MP from Berhampore in the district,
demanded immediate punishment for the guilty.
"The Trinamool Congress has vowed to keep strikers at bay and this
is what they are doing. Trinamool is now a party of goons who have
gone out of control," he said.
Communist Party of India leader Gurudas Dasgupta described the
incident "state-sponsored terrorism".
"Is this a 'jungle raj' or are we living under the Taliban
regime?" said Congress MP Deepa Dasmunsi. "The law and order
situation has been steadily deteriorating and the Trinamool
government is responsible for this."
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Mohammad Salim said "goons
patronised by the Trinamool have turned into fierce beasts and
Banerjee has unleashed them asking to pounce on her opponents".
"It's not only the man's but the whole state's ear has been
chopped off," he said.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani said lawlessness was
becoming the order of the day in Bengal.
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