Centre Promises Action After Report Claims 7,000 Women Molested In Bengal Post-Poll Violence

Citing the report which was prepared after a five-member team visited Bengal and met with people, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said 16 districts of the state were affected by the post-poll violence.

The Centre today promised to take action on the report of a fact-finding team which claimed that there were 15,000 incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal in which 25 people were killed and 7,000 women were molested. According to Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy, the report by the civil society group Call for Justice, headed by former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court Justice (Retd.) Permod Kohli, stated that the magnitude and reach of the post-poll violence touched many villages and towns all across West Bengal simultaneously beginning the night of May 2 when the results of the assembly elections were declared. "This is a clear indication that most of the incidents are not sporadic but premeditated, organised, and conspiratorial," the report stated. The five-member team also included two retired Indian Administrative Service and one Indian Police Service officers.