A city cop who was beaten up and stabbed repeatedly for protesting the harassment of his niece at their Birati home on Holi died of cerebral haemorrhage on Sunday morning. Family members of constable Ashim Kumar Dam said they had named eight youths in the FIR they filed on Friday morning after being turned away by police twice, but none could be rounded up till late on Sunday. The eight accused are Abhijit Ghosh, Biswajit Ghosh, Jabar Ghosh, Jhantu Majumdar, Debu Chakraborty, Tapan Chanda, Panka Dutta and Kuntal Chakraborty. All are residents of the area. The police, however, said Jhantu Majumdar's name was not on the list. "We have taken prompt action after getting the complaint," said Tarun Halder, additional deputy commissioner, Bidhannagar. Doctors at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, where the 48-year-old constable of Entally police station was admitted, said he had died of internal cerebral haemorrhage caused by "severe injuries". Trouble started around 2.10pm on Thursday when "five-six youths" turned up at the Dams' two-storeyed house near Bisharpara railway station in Birati, 23km from the city. "The youths tried to forcibly smear me with colours. My uncles told them to stop but they started taunting me. The youths left after some altercation," said 24-year-old Mamon Dhar, daughter of one of Ashim's sisters. The youths returned in a larger group after about 40 minutes. "This time they were armed with guns, wickets and hockey sticks. One of them hit my eldest uncle (Ashim) on the head with a hockey stick. Another stabbed him in his abdomen, hands and legs. The gang also hit my 78-year-old grandmother (Ashim's mother) on her arm," Mamon recalled. After the attackers left, family members took Ashim to North Dum Dum Municipal Hospital, from where he was shifted to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and finally to Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in the evening. Family members said they went to Nimta police station to lodge a complaint but the officers turned them away without citing any reason. "We then went to the airport police station but the cops told us to come back the next morning with a written complaint. They received our complaint on Friday morning but did not give us any diary number," said a sister of Ashim. Deputy commissioner Halder, however, denied that the airport police station had turned away the family members on their first visit. According to rules, a police station cannot refused to register a complaint under any circumstance, even if the place of occurrence is beyond its jurisdiction. "If faced with a jurisdictional problem, the complaint has to be forwarded to the police station concerned," said a senior officer. The police inaction was only matched by the promptness of political rivals to trade charges over the identity of the accused. Local Trinamul MLA and minister Chandrima Bhattacharjee, who visited the family on Sunday morning, accused the CPM of engineering the attack. The CPM's Amitava Nandy denied the charge, saying the attackers were backed by Trinamul. | 
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