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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Cops to seek advice from DPP on chopping incident

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Sascha Wilson
688 days ago
20230801

Should charges be laid against a Bar­rack­pore woman who chopped off a rel­a­tive’s hand al­leged­ly in de­fence of a fe­male rel­a­tive who he was beat­ing?

Or should the man be charged for al­leged­ly beat­ing the woman?

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said yes­ter­day they in­tend to seek ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) by the end of this week on how to pro­ceed with this in­ci­dent which took place on Ju­ly 14.

The 20-year-old woman, an agri­cul­tur­al work­er, was ar­rest­ed but re­leased three days af­ter the in­ci­dent. She is stay­ing at an undis­closed lo­ca­tion.

Doc­tors were un­able to re-at­tach the hand of the 61-year-old man, a san­i­ta­tion work­er.

He was re­leased from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Ju­ly 21 and has since re­turned home.

A po­lice re­port said the young woman in­ter­vened af­ter she heard her rel­a­tive Kam­la Lal, 58, bawl­ing and call­ing out her name at her (Lal) Oropouche South Trace, Bar­rack­pore, home on Ju­ly 14.

She ran to Lal’s home and al­leged­ly saw the man beat­ing Lal with an iron chair. Lal’s head was bleed­ing. She al­leged­ly called on him to stop but he con­tin­ued beat­ing Lal. She ran in­side the house, grabbed a cut­lass and again called on him to stop. It is al­leged that he tried to hit her and she chopped him on his arms. His left hand was sev­ered. Lal had tak­en out a pro­tec­tion or­der against the man last No­vem­ber.

South­ern Di­vi­sion Se­nior Supt Richard Smith said in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent are con­tin­u­ing.

He said they have record­ed state­ments from wit­ness­es, in­clud­ing Lal. He said they have al­so record­ed state­ments from the woman and her fa­ther.

“We will be con­duct­ing in­quires with view of seek­ing ad­vice from the DPP in re­la­tion to charges, who we will be lay­ing charges against, whether it is the girl or whether it is the fa­ther who al­leged­ly com­mit­ted an of­fence up­on the woman (Lal),” said Smith.

He said in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to com­plete the file and ap­proach the DPP at the end of this week.

He added that the par­ties have been re­ferred to the Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit.


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