The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), the women wing of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist), here on Wednesday pointed out loopholes in the police version of the death of the wife of a party supporter in Contai in Purba Medinipur district, and said it was a case of rape and murder and not suicide.
“According to the woman’s son, her body bore signs suggesting that she was tortured and raped. There were injury marks on her head and neck,” AIDWA State secretary Minati Ghosh told media persons.
A six-member team of the AIDWA had visited the family on Tuesday and submitted a report to the district’s additional superintendent of police. Police have been maintaining that the woman had committed suicide.
“We have received the post-mortem report and there is no mention of any violence or injury mark on the victim’s body. The death was a case of hanging,” District Superintendent of Police Sukesh Jain said on Tuesday.
Three persons were arrested for abetment to suicide on Tuesday. The pole from which the body was found hanging was five feet tall whereas the woman is five feet two inches tall, making it impossible for the woman to commit suicide, Ms. Ghosh said. The police was parroting lines taught to him by the AITC, she said.
She questioned why another doctor at the local hospital was asked to conduct the woman’s post-mortem.
