22-year-old Woman Alleges Abuse By TMC Men For Wearing Shorts, Smoking

Kolkata: A 22-year-old university student in Kolkata alleged on Sunday that she was assaulted and abused for wearing shorts and smoking by some Trinamool Congress (TMC) men returning from a poll rally.

The girl was returning home in South Kolkata's Netaji Nagar with a male student of the same university when they stopped for a smoke. She said in her statement that six men returning from a political rally, allegedly of TMC, demanded explanation why she was wearing shorts and smoking and assaulted her.
She claimed that she called the police following the incident late on Friday night and filed an FIR at Netaji Nagar Police Station the same night.

The girl in her Facebook post documenting the incident and said that following her complaint, police personnel called her up at around 2:30 AM and two male cops visited her home 30 minutes later as she failed to mention the date and time in her complaint.

The girl also claimed that the policemen again called her up at around 3:30 AM saying they needed to visit her home again because she had used an ink of different color while putting the date and time.

Debasish Chakraborty, Officer-in-charge of Netaji Nagar Police Station, said: “We have taken up the case and started our investigation. So far we have not got any such proof that there was any political link to this incident,” adding that the “unidentified” persons have not been arrested yet. The police have said that a woman police personnel was present when our officers went to her home to get the date and time of the incident. “We only went to her place after taking her consent,” Chakraborty added.