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LECTURER'S WIFE TO MOVE RIGHTS PANEL 

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Staff Reporter Published 27.07.00, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, July 27 :     Pleading for an inquiry, the wife of a lecturer of English attached to a leading city college has decided to approach the state human rights commission next week. Sutapa Mukherjee, the lecturer's wife, decided on this course of action after her husband, Partha, was granted interim bail by the Barasat district court last week. Partha was arrested on July 15 for allegedly torturing Sutapa, who is in an advanced stage of pregnancy. What is curious about the case is that the judge's observation and the medical reports appear contradictory. While granting interim bail to Partha, the judge observed that since Sutapa was nine months' pregnant, she could not possibly have been kicked in the abdomen, 'as then she would not have been in a position to lodge such a meticulous complaint.' But the medical report from the Salt Lake Sub-Divisional Hospital on July 15 says: 'Sutapa, who has been carrying for nine months, was assaulted by her husband at 9 am. She was kicked in her abdomen and was hit with a shoe in the face. Some scratches have been found on both the arms. Bruises have been found below her eyelids. She has been suffering from pain all over her body and looks anxious.' The judge criticised the neighbours for 'taking the law into their own hands on the day of the incident.' But the complaint lodged by Sutapa with Bidhannagar (East) police station does not bear out this observation. Sutapa said in the FIR: 'On the day of the incident, around 2 pm, I saw Partha Mukherjee driving away while I was entering the gate of Karunamoyee housing estate. I reached my flat and found the door locked from outside. I unlocked it but it did not open. I suspected someone was inside and I called the police. When the police were about to break open the door, Partha rushed in and started quarrelling with the police. He (Partha) ultimately knocked, opened the door, and spoke to the girl who was inside the flat. Then he was accompanied by the police to the police station.' Sutapa said everything happened before the police. So how could neighbours be involved ? Partha Mukherjee denied the allegations. His father, a former judge, Arun Kumar Mukherjee, said they had not yet decided whether legal action would be taken against Sutapa or not.'    
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