Kolkata:
Tension flared in the city’s Bhowanipore area on Tuesday after enraged locals assaulted the father and stepmother of an 11-year-old girl whose body was recovered in a partially hanging manner from a cupboard at their home a day earlier.
The girl, Suranjana Singh, was the niece of Sanjay Roy, the key convict in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an on-duty doctor, police said.
The couple, Bhola Singh and his wife Pooja, who were allegedly trying to flee their residence, were confronted by neighbours and attacked in a display of public outrage after they accused the duo of torturing the child physically and mentally at home, a senior police officer said.
Eyewitnesses said locals dragged the stepmother by her hair and beat her, while the father was also thrashed with shoes.
Police reached the spot and escorted the couple to the local Alipore police station after rescuing them from the agitated neighbours.
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