Mograghat missing girl: Girl’s father says Muslim boy’s family threatening his relatives

The father, talking to The Indian Express, said no policemen had tried to get in touch with them in the past five-six days. He also alleged that when he had visited Mograghat police station on May 9 to lodge an FIR regarding his daughter’s abduction, he was asked to sign on some white papers, the contents of which he was not aware of.

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The father denied that his daughter had eloped with her Muslim friend. “We had a Hindu boy arranged for her marriage once she passed her higher secondary examination,” said the father. “But she was forcibly taken away on May 4-5 night,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hindu Samhati president Tapan Ghosh, who has taken up the case, alleged on Sunday that Trinamool Congress cadres have begun a whispering campaign in Mograghat against the girl saying that “she was spoilt.” The campaign was being carried out by a local muscleman, Selim, who was allegedly under TMC patronage, Ghosh alleged.

Sovan Chatterjee, the TMC in-charge of South 24-Parganas district, however, denied the allegations and said that BJP was trying to distort the incident and give it a communal colour.

BJP national spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh on Sunday joined the BJP dharna in Mograghat and said the agitation would be spread out to the districts from July 21 if the girl is not returned to her parents by then. “The BJP is looking at this from a law and order point of view and for the insensitiveness that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC have shown to such incidents,” Singh said.

Investigating officers said that there has been no breakthrough in the case so far. A senior police official said that all attempts were being made to trace the girl and restore her to the family.

On Monday, a three-member team from the National Women Commission is expected to visit the girl’s family and the village from where she was missing. The team is also scheduled to meet West Bengal Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi.