West Bengal: BJP claims to move NHRC on activist's 'torture'

CHINSURAH: The district BJP today moved the NHRC alleging one of its local leaders was stripped in a closed room and subjected to physical torture by Trinamool Congress men in Hooghly for attending saffron party President Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata on November 30.

Hooghly BJP Vice-President Swapan Paul said the district unit approached the NHRC alleging Bansberia town BJP chief Bishnu Chowdhury was stripped and thrashed in a closed room by local TMC men on December three who sought an explanation why he had attended Shah's rally and even ordered him to say "Mamata Banerjee zindabad".

District TMC president Tapan Dasgupta rubbished the allegations and said BJP was resorting to cheap gimmicks to make political inroads. He also wanted to know why the BJP took so long to make the charges public after December three. ` Officer-in-charge of Mogra police station Sukhomoy Chakroborty said no formal complaint was lodged by BJP about the matter and their activists came to the police station yesterday on a different issue.