RG Kar: Cal HC says trial court to take call on victims parents plea to visit crime scene

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Posted by AI on 2025-06-26 14:44:23 | Last Updated by AI on 2025-06-26 15:54:43

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The Calcutta High Court has instructed the trial court to decide whether to allow the parents of a murder victim to visit the place where their son was killed.

The directive came after additional sessions judge first class RG Kar of the High Court asked the Basirhat police commissioner and the investigating officer of the case on Thursday to file a report in reply to a petition filed by the victim's parents, BA Samad and Jasti Fatema.

Their lawyer, Pradip Chatterjee, said Samad and Fatema told the court that they wanted to visit the spot where their son, who was working as a driver with a courier company, was killed to ascertain what really happened.

Their son, Billal Hassan, was allegedly killed by guards from a bordering area in Basirhat, a town in North 24 Parganas district, during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, on February 18, 2020.

Three persons were killed in the Basirhat area when the agitation against the contentious law turned violent.

The police had claimed that the trio were victims of violence unleashed by the protesters.

However, the family members of Hassan alleged that he was killed by the guards while he was on his way to visit them. They have also alleged that the police suppressed the facts in the case.

So far, 15 persons have been arrested in the case and are in custody. They are lodged in the Basirhat sub-jail.

A special investigation team is probing the murder.

The high court had on November 25, 2020, directed the West Bengal government to pay Rs 3 lakh compensation to each of the next of kin of the three persons killed in the anti-CAA protests.

In April this year, the high court had directed the state government to compensate the parents of Billal Hassan by June 6, 2022.

So far, the state government has paid the compensation amount to the families of the other two killed in the incident.

Hearing the plea moved by Hassan's parents, the high court had on August 23 directed the Basirhat police commissioner to consider their request to visit the spot by granting them a pass.

It had also directed the police commissioner to file a report on the issue by September 19.

At the hearing on Thursday, the police commissioner and the investigating officer sought more time to file the report in the high court.

The court then fixed September 26 as the next date of hearing and asked the trial court to decide if the victim's parents could visit the spot.

"The trial court will take a call on the request of the victim's parents after going through the inputs of the investigating officer," the high court said.

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