Kolkata: Tension flared in the city’s Bhowanipore area on Tuesday after enraged locals assaulted the father and stepmother of an 11-year-old girl whose body was recovered in a partially hanging manner from a cupboard at their home a day earlier.
The deceased minor, Suranjana Singh, was the niece of Sanjay Roy, the key convict in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an on-duty doctor, police said.
The couple, Bhola Singh and his wife Pooja, who were allegedly trying to flee their residence, were confronted by neighbours and attacked in a display of public outrage after they accused the duo of torturing the child physically and mentally at home, a senior police officer said.
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