• Factory owner held in Mum for teen’s torture
    Times of India | 6 June 2025
  • Kolkata: Shahenshah, the owner of a jeans manufacturing unit in Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas was arrested from Mumbai by a team of Bengal Police on Thursday for the alleged torture of a teenaged boy, who worked at his factory.The arrest was made amid the outrage over a widely circulated video, showing the 14-year-old boy, Samsad Ali, being hanged upside down, his hands tied with electric cables, thrashed and administered electric shock. Samsad, who came from Chogoria village in Islampur in North Dinajpur, had been working at the factory for one-and-a-half months. Samsad was being turtured allegedly for stealing a mobile. But his father had said that ahead of Eid, Samdas had asked the factory owner for his wages, which were due, and that had led to this torture. Shahenshah had been on the run ever since the video went viral, police said. Earlier, three other persons involved in the incident were arrested. The boy's family claimed he was falsely accused of stealing the cellphone. "He was tortured without any reason. We have lodged a police complaint," a family member told reporters. pti
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