Pravash Mondal was shot when he tried to snatch a policeman’s firearm and flee during the reconstruction of the crime, sources told NDTV.
One of the suspects in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl was killed in a police encounter last night in the Baruipur suburb of Kolkata. Around midnight, Pravash Mondal was taken to the spot for the reconstruction of the crime. During this, he tried to snatch a firearm from the police and flee, sources told NDTV.
Mondal was among the four suspects arrested after the girl’s body was found stuffed in a sack from a pond in Baruipur. The three others have been identified as Ananda Sardar, Dibakar Sardar, and Kabir Mollah. Sources said that the Sardars had confessed to their crime.
A wave of violent protests swept the southern suburbs after the girl’s body was found on Sunday, as angry locals damaged railway tracks and police vehicles.
At least 20 people have been arrested in such vandalism cases. According to the police, they were also involved in the lynching of an innocent man, Indrajit Mondal, who was beaten to death on suspicion of being involved in the rape and murder case.
The arrests came a day after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari met the families of the girl and the lynching victim in Baruipur, and said that 200 people had been identified for instigating violent protests.
