BJP MP seeks FIR against Mamata over ‘torture’ video post: ‘Bid to malign Delhi Police, incite public discontent’

Soumendu Adhikari is the brother of the Leader Of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari.

On July 27, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee posted a video on her X handle and alleged that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were brutally assaulted by personnel of the Delhi Police in the name of Aadhaar verification. “Atrocious!! Terrible!!. See how Delhi police brutally beat up a kid and his mother, members of a migrant family from Malda’s Chanchal. See how even a child is not spared from the cruelty of violence in the regime of linguistic terror unleashed by the BJP in the country against the Bengalis,” Mamata had posted.

A day later, DCP East Delhi, Abhishek Dhania, told mediapersons that the woman in the video had retracted her claims when questioned by police.

Referring to Dhania’s press conference and the claims made by the police, the BJP MP wrote that “the intention behind making the video was to create a false narrative and circulate it on social media for political and defamatory purposes.”

“The actions of Mamata Banerjee, in knowingly or recklessly disseminating unverified, provocative and false content, constitute grave offences,” the MP said, demanding a detailed investigation to identify a “wider conspiracy”, and appropriate penal action against the chief minister.

The family of the woman, said to be in the video, has, however, stuck with their allegations against the Delhi Police. According to the woman’s father-in-law, the family has been staying in Delhi for the past six years and hails from Malda. Meanwhile, relatives of the family in Chanchal, in West Bengal’s Malda district, lodged a complaint with the local police on Sunday night.