Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

Kolkata Rally Seeks Justice For Anish Khan

Mar 7, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

Activists stage a protest over the Anish Khan murder case in Kolkata (PTI)

Congress activists, led by West Bengal PCC chief Adhir Chowdhury, took to the streets of Kolkata on Sunday, demanding justice for student leader Anish Khan, whose mysterious death in Howrah district on February 18 has triggered state-wide protests.

Anish, a former Left student leader who later joined the Indian Secular Front, was found dead outside his residence at Amta on the night of February 18.

His father Salem Khan had alleged that three persons wearing police uniforms had raided their house on that night and while one of them held the elderly person at gunpoint, two others went to the incomplete third floor of the house and after a brief argument with the Aliah University alumnus, pushed him to his death.

Chowdhury, who met the family of the deceased at their house in Amta the day before, led the procession of around 300 Congress workers from Bidhan Bhavan, the state party headquarters in central Kolkata’s Entally, to the seven-point crossing in Park Circus in the southern part of the metropolis.

The senior Congress leader was holding a placard which read in Bengali: “We demand justice, we demand high-level independent probe against state conspiracy.” A woman activist of the party, walking side by side with Chowdhury, held a placard which read: “We demand CBI probe into the murder of Anish Khan.”

After covering a distance of one kilometre, Chowdhury, also the leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha said, “I have spoken to the victim’s father Salem Khan. I have promised him all help in his fight for ‘insaaf’ (justice) for his son who was murdered. He was a son of Bengal and belonged to the entire state.”

Pointing out that he will take the battle ‘Justice for Anish Khan’ to New Delhi if required, Chowdhury alleged that “the chief minister and her government wants to mute the voice of protest of Anish Khan’s family by giving a job to his brother. But she cannot silence the call for justice. Anish was a strong voice against communalism and any divisive agenda. He was a prominent face in the anti-CAA movement. He stood against the graft of the local establishment. So we need to know who killed him, and the reason as to why he was killed. We want a high-level probe not influenced by the powers-that-be into the cold-blooded murder.”

The state government has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the death of the student activist. DGP Manoj Malviya had said the SIT would expeditiously unravel the truth within 15 days from February 24 and announced the arrest of two persons — a home guard and a civic volunteer of Amta police station – in connection with the incident.

West Bengal minister Pulak Roy had recently visited the family and blamed Left parties and organisations for trying to influence them for political reasons and derail the SIT probe.

A second inquest on the body of the slain leader was done on March 1, after exhumation from a burial ground close to his residence, on the orders of the Calcutta High Court.

Tags: Anish Khan, Justice for Anish Khan, Kolkata, Pratirodh

Continue Reading

Previous Russia Quells Media Protests As War Rages On
Next NGT Flags Dumping Of Bio-Medical Waste Into Bhopal Lakes

More Stories

  • Featured

Farms Turn Femme But Women Still Plough Through Power Centres

1 hour ago Shalini
  • Featured

PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation

24 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Farms Turn Femme But Women Still Plough Through Power Centres
  • PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress
  • Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation
  • Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
  • Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt
  • A Song Of Rock And Ice
  • Access & Benefit Sharing Regulations Impinge On Rights Of Local Communities
  • Making Cuts In Implementation Of MGNREGA A Crime Against Constitution
  • Tiger Death Highlights Strained Human-Wildlife Interactions In Assam
  • Scientists And Monks Perform Last Rites For A Himalayan Glacier
  • Bihar Yearning For Change But The Election Is Wide Open
  • Shipwreck Spills Oil, Plastic & Legal Loopholes
  • As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, The Calls For Reform Grow
  • ‘US Invite To Pak Army Chief Huge Diplomatic Setback For India’
  • Politics Based On Grievance Has A Long And Violent History In America
  • How Birds Are Taking A Hit From Microplastics Contamination
  • Kharge Reviews 11 Yrs Of NDA Govt, Says PM Made 33 Mistakes
  • Upholding The Law, SC Halts Amnesties For EIA Violators, Jolts Industry
  • Using Indian Languages When Reporting About The Environment
  • ‘Maximum Boasts, Minimum Achievements’: Congress Attacks Shah

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

Farms Turn Femme But Women Still Plough Through Power Centres

1 hour ago Shalini
  • Featured

PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation

24 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt

2 days ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Farms Turn Femme But Women Still Plough Through Power Centres
  • PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress
  • Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation
  • Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
  • Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.