Her two daughters went missing soon after the gangrape that night. In chilling testimony to The Indian Express, Sabina has said that after she was raped, she saw her daughters, Fatima, 16, and Nasreen, 14, raped as well and then abducted by CPM cadres. All the three names have been changed to protect their identities.
This gruesome incident, according to the police complaint, occurred in Satengabari, one of the villages that bore the brunt of the CPM’s terror. When The Indian Express visited the village yesterday, it found 160 of the 240 houses either burnt or badly damaged. Most of the residents are huddled in the Brojomohan school relief camp.
“We have initiated a case of rape and I cannot say anything more,” said S S Panda, Superintendent of Police, East Midnapore. “Doctors have confirmed that Sabina was raped. I personally took her statement yesterday at the Tamluk sub-divisional hospital. We have registered a case of gangrape against the accused. She has given us names in her statement but I cannot disclose the names right now. We have also attached the case of her two missing daughters with the gangrape case,” Champak Chowdhury, Officer-in-Charge of Nandigram police station, told The Indian Express.
“We have had detailed tests done of the patient named Sabina by a gynaecologist. Later, some specimens were sent to the laboratory. Rape has been confirmed,” said S Patra, Superintendent of the Tamluk Sub-Divisional hospital.
The Indian Express visited Sabina who is admitted in the “female ward” of the hospital and met her traumatised family members at the relief camp.
“At around 8 that evening, a group of youths knocked at my door and my mother-in-law opened it. Mir Bachchu Sheikh and Mir Kalu, two CPM men whom I knew in the village along with several others, barged in. I tried to run away with my two daughters but was caught in the backyard,” Sabina told The Indian Express.
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