Kolkata, Apr 17: Retorting to Mamata Banerjee's remark alleging "collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh", National Commission for Protection of Child Rights ( NCPCR ) chairman Priyank Kanoongo on Sunday (Apr 16) said that he was shocked by the collapse of the same in West Bengal where he alleged he was "beaten" by the police.

 

 

 

"I was also shocked by the total collapse of the law and order in West Bengal when I was beaten up by police officers on instructions of your government to stop the inquiry of sexual abuse and murder of a girl child. It is shameful that cops are behaving like goons in your rule," Tweeted Priyank Kanoongo. The matter pertains to March when he claimed that the Bengal police were surreptitiously recording the investigation proceedings of the NCPCR regarding the murder of a girl in Kolkata and the rape of another minor in Malda.

 

 

 

 

 

His remarks come after the West Bengal CM in a tweet said that it is shameful that perpetrators are now taking the law into their own hands, unfazed by the police and media presence. She was referring to the killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed at Prayagraj. "I am shocked by the brazen anarchy and total collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh. It is shameful that perpetrators are now taking the law into their own hands, unfazed by the police and media presence. Such unlawful acts have no place in our constitutional democracy," tweeted Banerjee.

 

 

Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead by men posing as press persons on Saturday (Apr 15) while being taken for a medical examination in Prayagraj. Both the gangsters collapsed on the spot after they were shot at nearly point-blank range. Earlier, the bodies of the gangster-turned-politician and his brother were brought to Kasari Masari burial ground in Prayagraj for burial.

 

 

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