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TIL in 1970, Communists in West Bengal butchered a family politically opposed to them, and mixed the blood of the victims with rice and force fed it to their distraught mother


Also known as the "Sain Bari Massacre".


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On March 17, 1970, the Sain family in Burdwan was witness to violence that would go on to become election lore for many years in come in Bengal. Complaints registered with the police said that CPI(M) goons first set the Sain's house (Sain bari in Bengali) on fire. Then they barged into the house and killed three members of the panic stricken family. The eldest son's eyes were gouged out, another hacked to death and the third chased across the neighbourhood and butchered in a neighbour's house he tried to hide in. The young tutor of the Sain family's small children, who was present in the house at that time, was stabbed to death.


A year after the carnage, the eldest son, then blinded and defenceless as a result of the previous attack, was literally chopped to pieces. Beyond the police records, gruesome details of the attack dominated political conversations for years. How the inebriated, murderous CPI(M) mob celebrated the murders with the corpses lying around, how they mixed rice in the blood of the massacred victims and tried to feed it to the women of the family. Yet, the CPI(M) overthrew the Congress government and came to power a few years later. Allegedly, one of the accused in the case, Nirupam Sen, went on to become the state industries minister.



Article on Times of India



On March 17, 1970, the incident happened a day after the United Front government was toppled. The Sains who were known to be Congress loyalists were attacked and two brothers Pranab Sain and Moloy Sain were brutally murderd in front of their mother and later their mother Mriganayani was forced to eat rice which was stained with her sons blood. Even a tutor who had come to their home at that time Jiten Ray was also murdered. ""After the murder and attack the CPM supporters took out a procession from our house,"" recalled Swarnalata Jash who is a prime witness in this gruesome murder. On that day hes six month old son's 'Annaprasan' was going to take place and even the killers had tossed her son Amrit to kill the six month old baby, claimed, Swarnalata Jash.



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