Click to play videoKolkata: Maoists killed a policeman in West Bengal leaving his family distraught. The only bread-winner of his family, Sanjoy Ghosh, was brutally murdered while he was training at a police camp in Bankura.
Ghosh's father Tapan Ghosh is 64 years old and a contract labourer. He is exactly the kind of poor that Maoist revolutionaries pledge to protect and fight for.
Instead, they have taken away Tapan's sole support -- his son Sanjoy.
A Bengal Armed Police constable, Sanjoy was tortured and beheaded by alleged Maoists in Bankura on Tuesday.
Sanjoy's body was so mutilated that family members were asked not to open his coffin for a last look.
"I ask the government to provide a job to my youngest daughter," says Tapan Ghosh.
"I would tell those who killed my brother that they should stop such brutal acts and not rob any more families of their brothers," says Sanjoy Ghosh's sister Rupa Ghosh.
Ghosh had joined the State Armed Police just 16 months ago, nine months of which he spent in the jungles training and guarding a police camp in Bankura.
He was abducted by Maoists from the camp on January 25. His body was later found with a slit throat, multiple head injuries and a nearly severed right arm.
While the police remained silent about the abduction, Sanjoy's family members allege they came to know of his death from a television news report.
Maoist leader Kisenji had regretted the brutal beheading of Jharkhand policeman Francis Induwar.
With Sanjoy Ghosh that brutality was repeated on Bengal's soil. The incident has yet again exposed the government's helplessness in the wake of Maoist terror in West Bengal.
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