Sandeshkhali horror: Local women accuse local TMC leaders of sexual harassment and violence
Surveillance has been beefed up in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district amid fresh allegations of hounding by local anti-social elements in the wee hours of the day levelled by some women.
The security has been tightened to prevent the recurrence of tension.
The National Commission of Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is also scheduled to visit Sandeshkhali on Thursday.
District police sources said that 10 new CCTV cameras have been installed at five different locations with a focus on the areas from where maximum complaints were received.
The initiative, according to the local police, will be key in keeping a close watch on the movements of people in the troubled areas so that prompt action can be taken in case of any foul play.
On Wednesday, that is 14 days after tension broke out at Sandeshkhali after some local women accused certain local Trinamool Congress leaders of sexual harassment and violence, acting DGP Rajeev Kumar visited the troubled spots, accompanied by newly-appointed ADG (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar and Basirhat district SP Hossain Mehedi Rehman.
Kumar held a closed-door meeting with the top police officers on the law-and-order situation in the area.
According to sources Kumar took a detailed stock of the nature of police deployment in the area and the complaints received by the police.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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