West Bengal child murder: Hang my wife and her friend, says victim's father
Times of India | 22 February 2024
UTTARPARA: The father of Snehangshu Sharma - the eight-year-old, who had been brutally murdered at Konnagar five days ago - said on Wednesday that the two accused women, including his wife, be hanged for the crime. The Serampore subdivisional court has given nine-day police remand to the mother, Shanta Sharma, and her friend, Iffat Parveen.
The two accused had no lawyer for them when they appeared in the court. The child's father, Pankaj, was standing outside the court with tearful eyes.
On Friday, the class IV student was stabbed with a vegetable knife, his head struck repeatedly by an iron rod and smashed in with a stone idol at their home in Konnagar's Adarshnagar, barely 25 km from Kolkata.
Cops claimed that Shanta Sharma and Iffat Parveen, who was later arrested from Watgunge in Kolkata, had been in a romantic relationship and they had killed the child to silence him after he had spotted them "in a compromising position".
On Wednesday, many people thronged the court lawn to catch a glimpse of the two accused. Around 2.45 pm, they walked out in tight police cordon, heading towards a prison van that was parked about 50 metres away. In reply to reporters' questions, Shanta said: "Ma ki chele ke marte pare? (Can a mother kill her son?) I don't know anything."
When Sharma was asked about her relation with Iffat, she replied: "She is a good friend. I know her for 12 years." Iffat did not say anything.
The incident has created sensation in Hooghly, Howrah and Kolkata. Nazir Hussain, a trader from Kidderpore in Kolkata, was among those standing outside the court. He said, " I have come all the way from Kolkata to see the accused who could commit such crime."
Achchhelal Yadav, who has been living at Adarshnagar of Konnagar for a long time, said, "I thank the police for solving this case in a short of time."
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