{"id":32500,"date":"2026-07-08T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/bengal-becoming-up-2-0-mahua-moitra-reacts-after-baruipur-rape-murder-accused-shot-dead-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:01:35","slug":"bengal-becoming-up-2-0-mahua-moitra-reacts-after-baruipur-rape-murder-accused-shot-dead-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/bengal-becoming-up-2-0-mahua-moitra-reacts-after-baruipur-rape-murder-accused-shot-dead-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bengal becoming UP 2.0&#8217;: Mahua Moitra reacts after Baruipur rape-murder accused shot dead | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<div class=\"aHAWH\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132255411,imgsize-1217073,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/132255411.jpg\" title=\"Baruipur Rape-Murder Accused Shot Dead In Police Encounter During Crime Scene Reconstruction\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdersrc=\"\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" msid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" alt=\"Baruipur Rape-Murder Accused Shot Dead In Police Encounter During Crime Scene Reconstruction\" class=\"undefined\"\/><\/div>\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined   YjeWt\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<p><span title=\"Her remarks came hours after Prabhas Mondal, one of the prime accused in the case, was shot dead\">Her remarks came hours after Prabhas Mondal, one of the prime accused in the case, was shot dead<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mahua-moitra\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mahua Moitra<\/a> on Wednesday criticised the West Bengal Police after one of the main accused in the rape and murder of an 12-year-old girl in Baruipur was killed in a police encounter, calling the incident &#8220;jungle law&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Reacting to the development on X, Moitra wrote: &#8220;Baruipur rape murder accused Prabhash Mondal killed in encounter! What is going on @WBPolice? Bengalis please welcome new Bengal- Uttar Pradesh 2.0 @BJP4Bengal is no government. This js jungle law.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Her remarks came hours after Prabhas Mondal, one of the prime accused in the case, was shot dead during what police described as a crime scene reconstruction exercise in South 24 Parganas district. <!-- -->The encounter is the first such police action since the BJP government assumed office in West Bengal in May.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Senior TMC leader Sougata Roy also questioned the encounter, saying, &#8220;I condemn this encounter death. This happened within one day of the CM and DGP visiting. I don&#8217;t know under whose instructions the police killed an accused instead of putting him in court. I am sure that a throrough inquiry will be done into this.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>According to police, Mondal was taken to Surjyapur at around 12.45 am to reconstruct the sequence of events after investigators claimed he had been giving contradictory statements during questioning.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>A senior police officer said Mondal allegedly snatched a service firearm from a policeman, attempted to flee custody and fired a round at the police team. Officers retaliated in self-defence, leaving him with bullet injuries. <!-- -->He was taken to Baruipur Sub-Divisional Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Mondal was the first person arrested in the case and was considered a key suspect after CCTV footage allegedly showed him with the victim shortly before she disappeared.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Meanwhile, another accused, Kabir Molla, was arrested from Basirhat in a joint operation by the STF, Baruipur SOG and district police. With his arrest, the total number of people held in the case has risen to four.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>The victim&#8217;s body was recovered from a pond in the Surjyapur Haat area on July 5, a day after she went missing. Police allege she was gang-raped, murdered and her body stuffed into a sack before being dumped in the water.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>The incident triggered widespread protests, with angry residents blocking roads, setting tyres on fire and vandalising police vehicles while demanding swift arrests and strict punishment for those responsible.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/bengal-becoming-up-2-0-mahua-moitra-reacts-after-baruipur-rape-murder-accused-shot-dead\/articleshow\/132255395.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her remarks came hours after Prabhas Mondal, one of the prime accused in the case, was shot dead NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday criticised the West Bengal Police after one of the main accused in the rape and murder of an 12-year-old girl in Baruipur was killed in a police encounter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}