Bengal: Pregnant TMC supporter assaulted allegedly by BJP workers, delivers stillborn baby
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An eighth-month pregnant Trinamool Congress supporter in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar delivered a stillborn baby two days after she was assaulted allegedly by Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Wednesday, The Telegraph reported.
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Debajit Barman, a private tutor and TMC supporter, was on his way home at night when a group of alleged BJP workers attacked him. When Priya Pal, his pregnant wife, intervened to save him, she too was beaten up.
After the assault, the couple was admitted to the sub-divisional hospital. On Friday, Pal delivered a stillborn baby, Barman was quoted as saying.
Doctors had earlier estimated that Pal would deliver the baby in December.
Barman said that he had registered a complaint against 10 persons at the Sahebganj police station, reported The Telegraph.
The police have so far arrested two persons allegedly associated with the BJP in connection with the case.
BJP leaders, however, have denied allegations that those who assaulted the woman were linked to the Hindutva party. They claimed that the case stemmed from a wholly unrelated dispute involving the woman, The Telegraph added.
The incident comes more than a year after the BJP had alleged that its eighth-month pregnant supporter had been assaulted by TMC workers in Cooch Behar’s Salmara village in Dinhata.
At the time, the party claimed that several of its workers, including the pregnant woman,...