"Considering the seriousness of the incident, the Commission, comprising chairman Justice AK Ganguly and member Naparajit Mukherjee, has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter and directed the SP, Howrah (rural) to cause an investigation by a responsible officer and send the report to the Commission within four weeks," WBHRC registrar Rabindranath Samanta told PTI here today.
Justice Ganguly, who did not go to the WBHRC headquarters at Bhabani Bhavan for some days after the three-judge committee's report saying that he committed "unwelcome behaviour" towards a woman law intern was made public, has been attending office since Friday and the cognisance was taken after a meeting of the Commission yesterday, WBHRC sources said.
"A young man alongwith some associates followed them and started teasing them and ultimately the attitude of the teasers became very serious," Samanta said.
"One of the girls informed her brother over mobile phone and when he came and protested, he was brutally assaulted by the eve-teasers," the WBHRC registrar said.
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"At the intervention of the local people, one of them was detained while three others fled," he said.
He said that learning from the newspapers about the incident, the Commission decided to take suo motu cognisance of the incident.
They have been charged under sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongfully restraining a person), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of IPC, the sources said.