BJP MP urges Delhi police to probe assault claim on Bengali-speaking woman
The Statesman | 30 July 2025
BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari has lodged a police complaint in Delhi against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging the dissemination of fabricated and communally provocative content through social media.
Mr Adhikari urged the Delhi Police to register an FIR against Mamata Banerjee under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the IT Act, preserve and examine the original social media content, investigate the alleged conspiracy involving a political worker and a journalist, and initiate appropriate penal action.
In his letter addressed to the station house officer of the Cyber Crime branch of Delhi Police, Adhikari accused Banerjee of sharing false information with the intent to defame the city police and disturb public order. According to Mr Adhikari’s letter, on 27 July, Mamata Banerjee posted a message on her social media account alleging that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were brutally assaulted by Delhi Police officers during a verification drive. “The post further insinuated that the act was communal in nature and sought to project the Delhi Police as oppressors of linguistic minorities,” he said. The Kanthi MP claimed that such a post, coming from a constitutional functionary, was widely circulated online, sparking public outrage and causing reputational harm to the police force.
BJP MP mentioned the clarification of Abhishek Dhania, deputy commissioner of police, East Delhi, Monday that the woman, Sajnur Parveen, had fabricated her story. Initially, she alleged that four men in civil clothes abducted her and her children on 26 July and extorted Rs 25,000. However, scrutiny of CCTV footage and technical evidence revealed that she left her home voluntarily with her children, and no coercion was involved. Further interrogation revealed that Parveen confessed to fabricating the story under the influence of her uncle, a political worker in West Bengal’s Malda district, and a journalist.
“The intention behind the video was to create a false narrative and circulate it in social media for political and defamatory purposes,” alleged Mr Adhikari in his letter.