“We have been silent all these days but we were compelled to come out after receiving threats from local BJP people,” claimed Anjana*, the daughter-in-law of a Sandeshkhali local who has withdrawn her rape complaint against Trinamool Congress strongman Sheikh Shahjahan.
Three women constables have been deployed for the past three days at the hamlet where the family lives, in the shadow of a war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The island housing the village, in the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency, has emerged as a focal point of the poll campaign in West Bengal following allegations of sexual exploitation.
