WEST BENGAL police made one arrest yesterday after the naked body of a 15-year-old girl who had tried to save her father from a beating was found on a railway line in Jalpaiguri district.

After identifying the body, her father lodged a police complaint against 13 men for the “rape, murder and kidnapping” of his daughter.
Local students organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other left-wing groups went on strike and blocked local roads, demanding punishment for the culprits.

The man, a farmer, had been summoned on Monday to a village “reconciliation meeting” to answer charges of non-payment for a tractor he had rented.

His daughter had been warned by village elders of “dire consequences” if she persisted in protesting against plans to beat her father.
She was taken away and was not seen again before the discovery of her body, which has been sent for post-mortem.