Kolkata: A quarrel over the issue of using water from River Ganges while offering pujas at Tarakeshwar temple took its ugliest turn when armed miscreants barged into the house of a family in Lake Town and allegedly attacked them with deadly weapons on Wednesday night.
The police have initiated a case of attempt to murder against the offenders. According to police sources, a quarrel over using river water for puja purposes was going on between the family of Dilip Singh and Ravi Yadav for a couple of days.
Singh, a resident of Rishi Aurobindo Colony, lodged a complaint on Wednesday at around 10 pm stating that Ravi Yadav and some other persons had barged into his house and started ransacking household articles. When the family members tried to prevent them, Singh was attacked with a knife in an alleged attempt to kill. The attackers also outraged the modesty of the female members. They took away Rs 50,000 from the complainant's house and broke his motorcycle and the shop he owned.
A case of attempt to murder and molestation has been initiated at Lake Town police station.Interestingly, another family of the same locality lodged a similar complaint against Dilip Singh, the complainant of the earlier case.
Joydeb Saha alleged that Singh and his son Harkishan tried to kill him with arms and bamboo sticks and escaped with some valuables from his house over the same dispute. Another case has been initiated against Singh on the basis of Saha's compliant. "We are investigating both the cases as they are of similar nature," an officer of Lake Town police station said.
In another incident, a school student has lodged a complaint of molestation against her teacher Joy Prakash Narayan Sharma. According to her complaint, Sharma touched her body parts with an intention to outrage her modesty when she went to school to attend a prize distribution ceremony.