National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson Priyank Kanoongo claimed that he changed into roughed up with the aid of using law enforcement officials even as traveling the house of a minor lady in Kolkata`s Tiljala area, who changed into killed with the aid of using a neighbour in advance this week.
Police, however, rubbished Mr Kanoongo’s allegation and stated officials had cooperated with him, and it changed into the NCPCR leader who “misbehaved” with them.
“Bengal police officer Biswak Mukherjee beat me up at Tiljala police station in West Bengal. Policemen had been secretly recording our research proceedings. They beat me up for protesting in opposition to this,” Kanoongo tweeted in Hindi on Friday.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) leader Sudeshna Roy claimed that Mr Kanoongo “insulted her and her colleagues”, and that she changed into deliberating accommodations a police criticism on this regard.
“The NCPCR crew went there with out informing us. When I reached the spot, he (Kanoongo) began out talking in a completely insulting tone. He additionally attempted to attack me,” she informed PTI.
Ms Roy had on Thursday written to NCPCR, mentioning that its proposed go to to West Bengal over the homicide of a lady in Kolkata and the rape of any other minor in Malda changed into “now no longer without a doubt necessary”.
Earlier this week, a seven-year-vintage lady changed into killed with the aid of using a neighbour in Tiljala, even as a Class-6 lady changed into allegedly raped for the duration of faculty hours interior a central authority institute in Malda.