Overview
- Postmortem reports confirmed that the minor found in a pond had been gang‑raped and was alive when she was thrown into the water, a finding that triggered mass protests and police action.
- Hours after the body was found on July 5, an angry mob lynched local resident Indrajit Mondal and vandalised property, and police have since arrested multiple people in the lynching and vandalism cases.
- Police arrested several suspects in the rape and murder and one accused, Pravas Mondal, died in a police encounter during a midnight reconstruction; the CID has taken up a review of that encounter.
- The state STF arrested CPI(M) leader Mohammad Lahek (also reported as Layek Ali) on charges including alleged incitement and violence and a court remanded him to police custody for eight days; police say he faces 27 sections in the FIR.
- Officials have reassigned the investigating officer to DSP Santanu Mukhopadhyay, the chief minister visited victims’ families and provided relief, and political leaders on both sides dispute the motives behind arrests and protests.