Security Guard Assaults Tourist Family At Resort In West Bengal's East Midnapore
East Midnapore, West Bengal: A security guard has allegedly assaulted a Muslim family in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district on Saturday, September 5. The assault occurred at a tourist resort after a dispute over parking escalated.
The victim family said that the incident took place after they parked their car to inspect a room at Swarnamoyee Beach Resort in the coastal resort village of Mandarmani.
The videos of the incident show that the resort staff violently beating the family, including the elderly men and women, with lathis. One of the victims, Mohammad Asif said he was travelling with his family to Mandarmani for vacation and had parked their car at the resort to ask management about rooms. They left the resort after finding the rooms unsuitable and went to another hotel nearby.
The dispute escalated when the security guard reportedly began hitting Asif and the car with a stick. The family, in their attempt to stop the guard, was also attacked after the resort staff joined in. The victim alleged that when they protested, the guard began beating him indiscriminately. “When my family members tried to intervene and save me, they were assaulted as well,” Asif said. He added that the staff slapped and struck the family with sticks,” hate detector quoted the victim.
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The family lodged a complaint after the Mandarmani Coastal Police reached the spot, having received information about the assault. The police arrested two individuals, the hotel manager Bhaskar Biswas, 35, and security guard Subrata Ghosh, aged 45. The police said Biswas, a resident of Nadia district, and Ghosh of North 24 Parganas were produced before the court on Sunday, September 6.
