Kolkata: With the Mamata Banerjee government yet to initiate action against Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul for his rape remarks, a PIL was filed yesterday seeking penal action.
The public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the court of Justice Dipankar Dutta of the Calcutta High Court seeking a direction to the police for initiating criminal proceedings and arrest of Krishnanagar MP Paul.
“He has publicly exhorted his partymen to kill CPM activists and rape women. But, still this government has not initiated any action. So, we have pleaded before the court to take cognizance and direct the police to initiate criminal proceedings and arrest Paul,” counsel for petitioner Subrata Mukherjee said.
Addressing his party workers in his constituency, Paul was caught on subsequent tapes threatening to gun down CPM men and let loose his boys to rape their women. He also asked people to slit the rivals’ throats to prove themselves.
“If a CPM man dares to touch anybody, I will take out my gun and shoot him...I will destroy his entire clan... I will ask my boys to go there. They will rape them and leave,” Paul is seen saying in the first video while addressing partymen in Choumaha village.
Proceeding to Gopinathpur, 10 km from Choumaha, Paul is seen in the second video asking women to slit CPM throats and exhorts people to kill their rivals and show him.
“Till I am here, don’t spare any CPM worker. Our men will kill them. I am also asking the women to slit open CPM workers’ throats. Use your bontis (sharp vegetable-cutting instrument) to slash their throats. Why haven’t you done it till now? Don’t you know how to use a knife?
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