Draft:1969 Rabindra Sarobar Stadium en masse sexual violence controversy

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En masse public molestation and sexual violence against women

According to The Indian Express, on 1969 April 6, a scheduled musical night at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium called 'Ashok Kumar Nite' failed to take place due to faulty amplifiers. The crowd became unruly and women attending the gathering were allegedly molested and sexually abused en masse, the next day morning pieces of saris and other items of clothing were found scattered in the area.

According to Professor Rabindra Ray, women protested blaming Jyoti Basu, then Home minister of West Bengal, for the alleged incidence. Basu ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident and Justice Shambhu Ghosh Enquiry Commission declared to have given a clean chit. Opposition claimed that judicial inquiry to be a farce due to intimidation and unfair environment leading to silencing of victim women's voices and rights. The Chief Minister Ajoy Mukharjee's own party Bangla Congress had passed resolution on 7th October, 1969 questioned status of the law and order, violence and humiliation of women. Ajoy Mukharjee made 3 day satyagraha since 1st December 1969 against own government and resigned by 16 th March 1970 under pressure from ministers of own party.(Babulaal Bala p.1096-1097)

Media reports about failed function

The scheduled musical night was in the honour of well know Indian actor Ashok Kumar. ***As per report in Marathi language weekly Manus (माणस) dated 17th May function organized by Snehansu Kanta Acharya (and body called 'Youth corner') was presided and inaugurated by Legislative assembly speaker Bejoy Kumar Banerjee and attended by then Minister of State for sports Ram Chatterjee (CPI M) in capacity of host.*** Violent disturbances broke out many persons killed and several others were injured. As per the official figure told in the assembly on 14th July 1970 by then home minister Jyoti Basu, persons killed by police firing was 1 and injured 3.(West Bengal assembly proceedings 14th July 1970 page 505 of volume 49)

After two-three days reports started pouring in from various sources that fleeing women were en masse molested  by anti-social elements. Sarobar Stadium incident echoed  throughout the state of West Bengal and complains one after another were taken up to Prime Minister and Home Minister of India and demand for impartial judicial inquiry was raised. On the other hand,  the state Home Minister  Jyoti Basu claimed the alleged incidence amounts to be  a conspiracy of the Central Government against United Front Government. On the other hand, It was alleged  against Jyoti Basu that due to the involvement of his two close associates namely Snehansu Kanta Acharya and Minister Ram Chatterjee, among the organizers, Basu was reluctant to allow any impartial inquiry. Still  Jyoti Basu was compelled to appoint the judicial inquiry committee lead by Justice Shambhu Ghosh on 16th April 1969 due to unrelenting pressure from inside and out side the Cabinet. After weeks when no victims or witnesses came before  Justice Ghosh to confirm molestation so Justice Ghosh submitted his report that the commission did not come across any incident of molestation on women. But as per Barun Sengupta in Pala Badaler Pal that still many people believed, that the inquiry committee was not able to discover the true facts.

***As per report of investigative journalist Chandrashekhar of Marathi Weekly माणस ***

The event was scheduled on 15-16 March (2 days event). Underworld don Tulu Mukherjee (referred to as Tulubabu hereafter) was the organizer of the event. Everything was set.

However, in the first week of March, two groups of goons clashed. Sensing that the clashing can affect the event, Tulubabu arranged an emergency meeting in his garage to reconcile. Three goon leaders were present at the meeting - Nandan, Dasu and Pratim. The meeting failed and the goon leaders had a fight that caused Nandan to lose two fingers. Angry Nandan challenged Tulbabu and told him to cancel the event otherwise, he would wreck the event.

The news of the incident went viral and reached Ashok Kumar. Kumar informed the newspaper Anand Bazar Patrika that he isn't performing in the event. Anxious Tulababu postponed the event to 6 April.

On 6 April, People started gathering at the stadium right from the early afternoon. Most of the men and women present at the event were aware that something bad could happen and fierce Nandan is set to cause turmoil in the event. There were 40,000 people inside the stadium and 15,000 outside. Loudspeakers were provided for the people standing outside. But, the overall arrangement was a mess, with a lot of problems like dysfunctional speakers, mics etc. The function was set to start at 6 PM but was dragged for hours. The local artist kept performing and bored the people.

The people standing outside, waiting for Ashok Kumar, got annoyed and started throwing stones. The people inside the stadium began throwing things at the stage. 300 men of Nandan were sitting at some distance from the stage. Some police joined them. The lights went off (though roof searchlights were on for the whole incident), and the drama started. Some threw chairs at each other. Some started running at doors to escape. 90% of people were trying to escape, while 10% were busy chasing and fueling the already volatile situation. Some robbed jewellery and abused the girls and women around by groping and inappropriately touching them. Some grabbed and tore the clothes of women. Police requested the people to maintain peace so everyone can leave safely. But the crowd kept making chaos. They were unable to see anything due to the tear gas fired by the police.

Now the author put his conclusions based on the interviews of eye-witnesses (at least 10) and others - There were no incidences of rapes on the site. The narratives of 5-6 goons raping a woman, women committing suicides in the lake after the rape and abuse , Sardars giving their phetas to the naked women are all fake.

The photos published in newspapers after the incident, all of them show the firing of cars and other things. A woman, who was a teacher in the school in the stadium, went to the site the next day and found torn clothes of women. There were bras but no panties. The author inquired if anyone heard cries, screams of women at the site but no one responded positively. There was sexual abuse, kind of grosser than the common one, but there were no rapes. The author iterates that if someone is trying to bring down the ruling party elected by the people, by capitalising on such incidents, they aren't going to succeed.

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To be written from Dinaman news report. (Ref book Original from: the University of Virginia)

Media reporting

The Indian Express dated April 12, 1969 (reporting date April 11) reported that full details of the incidence of what all happened at Rabidra Sarobar Stadium will probably never be known, but what comes to light is abominable enough. According to The Indian Express, more people turned up for the event than the capacity of the stadium, audio system failed, by 10 P.M. lights went off, women found themselves to be defenceless against anti-social elements, clothes of many women were torn apart and ripped off of jewellery if any; many women took shelter to adjacent garden until were provided with alternate clothing. The Indian Express report says, the next day morning pieces of saris and other items of clothing were found scattered in the area. The report says three were confirmed dead in the ensued disturbance and many missing. The Indian Express report says, according to Deputy Commissioner of police (South Calcutta) though organizers were not having reliable antecedents still permission for the event was given since some responsible persons too were connected with the event organisation. The news report further states that, the Commissioner of Police K.P.K.Sen termed the incidence as 'one of the worst city has witnessed' and police will never approve of any entertainment events with movie stars participating in them. The municipal association of Congress party claimed that, ladies had to run without clothes and their ornaments snatched away and the congress Municipal Councillor for the area Dr. Biren Bose said that some women jumped in the nearby lake and bodies were found floating in it. The Indian Express editorial dated April 15, 1969 called 6th April incidence as 'Calcutta's Black Sunday' criticized failures in organisation of the event as well as criticized police for not being prepared enough for large kind of gathering that too when antecedents of some among organizer were known to police as being doubtful and not good enough.

According to Srikanta Ghosh the hooligans dismantled lighting arrangements in side and outside of stadium and under cover of darkness carried out their anti social activities including putting stadium furniture and cars outside on fire and mass level molesting and stripping of women.

On 19th April in its column 'Postures' weekly frontier while expressing their concern says ".. And here in West Bengal the Centre-State confrontation can also neutralise attention to such obnoxious business as the one at Rabindra Sarobar on April 6. Anyone trying to probe the disgraceful, incidents there would perhaps be called a Congress-Naxalite agent out to discredit the infant UF regime. .."

According to a media analysis report in Economic and Political Weekly dated 26 April 1969; news media did not perform itself seriously enough and reported the scale of sexual violence almost with a weeks lag, hushed up the headlines on first day and behaved as if media plays in the hands of politicians. Calcutta news papers initially presented violence occurred on the night of 6th April very routine uninteresting way did not contain details related to sexual violence against women. It took 200 MPs to write to the Prime Minister and Gherao picketing to Jyoti Basu in New Delhi to force state government to appoint judicial commission of inquiry. Only on 15th April, almost 9 days past the incidence Hindustan standard prominently reported statement of few eminent citizens referring to eyewitness reports that women had been stripped naked and molested, and that morning after , "Hundreds of Sarries and brassiers had been found scattered around the lake area. According to Subroto in Illustrated Weekly, while some politicians with vested interests were recirculating exaggerated reports, and some newspapers were playing along them, still as per fairly reliable eye witness accounts about the "..barbarities perpetrated by a gang of hoodlums at Rabindra Sarobar in Calcutta..were bad enough,.Subroto says that the monstrous and shameful incident had "occurred at a place hallowed by the name of Rabindranath who is the symbol of Bengal’s refinement and culture" is an irony. "words are inadequate to express the deep sense of sorrow and indignation." According to weekly माणस dated 17th May a session of robbing, firing, rapes, murders etc. completed with the farmer riots in 1967. The offenders were arrested. Fortunate for them, Jyoti Basu became Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister in 1969 and released all these men. These men were the organizers of the 6th April event. The author says Indira Gandhi has disappointed the people with her comment that the things that happened at Rabindra Sarobar Stadium are being exaggerated rather than visiting and hearing victims in person.

• https://www.frontierweekly.com/archive/vol-number/vol/vol-2/vol-2-issues/2_9_7june1969.pdf ~ ShahuL
• Media coverage time line (Let the time line be here until we cover it in detail enough)

* Statesman দ্য স্টেটসম্যান Dt. 7 April 1969

* Hindustan standard 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17  April 1969

* Indian Express 12 April 1969

* Times of India 14 April 1969

Political fallout

• Political background part to be shifted to note after referencing.

In first half of 20th century left of center Indian National Congress lead Indian freedom struggle and had large following among the masses. Post Indian partition, since initial decades of second half of 20th century, due to political proliferation of communist activism and violent extremism (called Naxalism), political environment in West Bengal had begun to tilt towards leftist side and Indian National Congress had begun to loose it's political grip. Since 1960s union government in New Delhi lead by Indira Gandhi of INC was in conundrum about how to stall extreme leftist political surge and extremist violence in state of West Bengal. By end of 1960s communist factions democratically came into power with help of break away socialist factions of INC in the name of United Front and insisted for home ministry portfolio for deputy chief minister Jyoti Basu. Union Government almost immediately started pressurizing the new political dispensation to quell the violence and blamed communist leadership of being hand in glove over violent extremism. At the same time the musical function organised by leftist group failed miserably with ensuing violence including alleged molestation of women. Communist leadership represented by Jyoti Basu , though declined opposition claims still came under increasing media and political pressure due to alleged en masse molestation and sexual violence against women at Rabindra Sarobar Stadium.

Political controversies

According to Sudhir Ray the Samyukta Socialist Party declined joining the in Second Mukherjee ministry government, but supported it from outside. However, SSP was not fully supportive of the government. CPI(M) and SSP activists clashes in the tea gardens and colleries. SSP, along with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, raised the 'Rabindra Sarobar incident' issue to discredit the United Front government.

Parliamentary and legislature debates

On 14th April 1969 members of Lok Sabha debated various incidences and situation in West Bengal. In respect to Rabindra Sarobar stadium incidence Congress leaders namely Sucheta Kripalani, Sharda Mukherji and A. K. Sen, former Law Minister, criticized unconstrained hooliganism at the Rabindra Sarobar stadium in which many women were molested and subjected to every forms of humiliation. According to Hem Barua, then member of Parliament from Mangaldoi, in his speech in Loksabha (House of representatives), the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium event was a ghastly incident where women were humiliated, and many had to return home naked (large quantities of torn brassieres and sarees were found the next day), and at least 30 went missing. Jyotirmoy Basu of CPI M called the allegations to be just a myth. (Date in the debate needed).

On 28 April 1969 in upper house of Indian parliament, Rajysabha a member Raj Narain told the house that situation on the ground in Calcutta is contrary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's statement claiming molestation being too much exaggerated. Narain told the house that he personally had been to Calcutta, consulted with women representations and also spoke with the actor Ashok Kumar in person. Narain including other members namely Rama Reddy, Lokanath Misra, Sarla Bhadauria, asked to have a lady judges preferably from Supreme Court be inducted into the inquiry commission for victim women to have confidence to face the inquiry, since Indian women are not culturally comfortable to speak before male dominated judicial probe. Bhupesh Gupta of communist dispensation opposed the other members.

The issue came again in Lok Sabha on 10 th December 1970 Ila Pal Chaudhari asked who was author of the Rabindra Sarovar incident? Jyotirmoy Basu said a High court judge has given lie to that. Ila Pal Choudhury responded back saying it is it is a heart-rending; women came to her crying; they showed their clothes which had been torn. Pal Chaudhari says, in reality, commission of inquiry headed by the High Court judge turned out to be a farce since it was not allowed to function freely, because witnesses and the lawyers including Pal Chaudhari's own counsel were intimidated with grave threats as none will be left alive in their family if any one gives evidence.

Investigations and left approach

• Basu, Jyoti. Memoirs, a Political Autobiography. India, National Book Agency, 1999. Page 225

Time line

• Massive victory of the United Front in the mid term poll in 1969
• Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee ministry took oath 25th February 1969 Jyoti Basu being home Minister. (CPIM insisted for Home port folio )
• First Cabinet meeting of the United Front Government 26th February 1969, it was decided to release all Naxalites immediately,
• Chaitra Shankranti, Sunday, 1969 April 6 scheduled musical night at the stadium called 'Ashok Kumar Nite' failed to take place some rioting looting and sexual violence took place.
• one man enquiry committee headed by Justice Shambhu Ghosh on 16th April 1969 to Report of judicial inquiry December 16, 1969.

Who is who

Personality	Who is who	Concerned Time line
	1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Jyoti Basu,	Then Home minister in then United Front (West Bengal) government Second Mukherjee ministry, Later long time Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Ajoy Mukherjee	Leader of the Bangla Congress Chief Minister in then United Front (West Bengal) government
Sushil Kumar Dhara, Charu Mihir Sarkar and Bhabatosh Soren	Ministers belonging to Bangla Congress who tendered resignations on 20th February, 1970 but resignations granted on 16th of March 1970.
Snehansu Kanta Acharya	Advocate General of West Bengal	in two terms from 1969 to 1970 and 1977 to 1986.
Bejoy Kumar Banerjee	Then Speaker, Legislative assembly West-Bengal
Ram Chatterjee	then Minister of State for sports, West Bengal
Shambhu Ghosh	Justice, who headed Enquiry Commission
Tulu Mukherjee (alias Tulubabu)	Alleged underworld goon and Initial convener of the function 15-16 March which was postponed to April after .
Nandan	Alleged competitor underworld goon who allegedly disturbed the event
Dasu and Pratim	Other two alleged underworld goons who participated in meeting between Tulubabu and Nandan
Ashok Kumar	Indian actor in whose honor night was scheduled
K.P.K. Sen	then Commissioner of Police
Dr. Biren Bose	the then congress Municipal Councillor for the area
Indira Gandhi	then Prime Minister of India
Ashoke Kumar Sen	former Minister of Law and Justice Union Government India
Ila Pal Choudhury
Sucheta Kripalani,	former members of Lok Sabha
Sharda Mukherji	former members of Lok Sabha
Jyotirmoy Basu	former members of Lok Sabha
Hem Barua	former member of Lok Sabha
Madhu Limaye
Raj Narain	former member of Rajysabha
Rama Reddy,	former member of Rajysabha
Sarla Bhadauria	former member of Rajysabha
Lokanath Misra,	former member of Rajysabha
Bhupesh Gupta	former member of Rajysabha
Atulya Ghosh
Dharma Vira	Governor of West Bengal	1 June 1967 – 1 April 1969
Deep Narayan Sinha	(Acting) Governor of West Bengal	1 April 1969 – 19 September 1969
Shanti Swaroop Dhavan	Governor of West Bengal	19 September 1969 – 21 August 1971
Political Parties
United Front	political coalition in West Bengal,
United Left Front (1967)
People's United Left Front
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Indian National Congress
Samyukta Socialist Party
Bharatiya Jana Sangh

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Calcutta underworld connection

• Das Suranjan, Ray Jayanta K. (Department of History University of Calcutta) 1996 ; 'The Goondas' Towards the reconstruction of Calcutta Underworld, Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt. Ltd. Calcutta. This ref book though does not mention Rabindra Sarobar incidence takes note of 'Tulu Mukherjee' as alias of Sujit Kumar Mukherjee (Page No. 47) and his perverse behavious including blackmailing etc. besides case studies mentioned in the book indicate Calcutta underworld's over all behaviour towards women was poor; The book also indicates the then sports minister Ram Chatterjee's antecedents were problematic enough. Another author Shrikanta Ghosh does not name criminals but includes Rabindra Sarobar Stadium incidenece in the list of criminals involvement in entertainment related aspects, Last but not least in the Indian Express news report Dy Commissioner of Police had been reported saying "..though organizers were not having reliable antecedents still permission for the event was given since some responsible persons too were connected with the event orgnisation. .." So investigative journalist story seem to get indirect credence.
• Babulal, Bala (2017). "Charismatic leadership of Ajay Kumar Mukherjee and non-Congress coalition government of West Bengal (1967-1971)". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (Vol. 78 (2017) ). 78. Indian History Congress: 1089–1102. JSTOR 26906187. p.1096: " Inter-Party Clash .. After that CPI (M) started occupying land, embankment and school forcefully. After seeing the activities of the CPI (M) the other parties also engaged themselves in the same work and thereby inter-party bloody struggle started among the United Front parties. As a result of that, murders, injuries, lootings and in some cases molestation of women also became the very common phenomena in West Bengal during the second United Front Government.26It might be noteworthy that in most of the cases in the inter-party conflict the main accused was CPI (M). .. In that excited environment of inter-party clashes and blood shedding, Chief Minister Ajay Mukherjee met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 26th September, 1969 at Delhi. After coming back of Ajay Mukherjee from Delhi a meeting of the 'Secretariate of Bangla Congress' was held on 7th October, 1969. The resolution of that meeting ... 'questioned status of the law and order and that the entire West Bengal was in a violent move. It appears from the statement that if the ongoing violence and humiliation of women were not stopped, the Bangla Congress would have no alternatives but to initiate resistance movement on Gandhian lines.28" ~ Bala Babulal There after Ajoy Mukherjee made three day Satygraha against own government's poor record of Law and order on on 1st December, 1969 at Curzon Park, Calcutta. In Feb-March 1970 Ajoy Mukherjee came under pressure after ministers from his own party decided to resign then 1970 March 16 Ajoy Mukherjee himself resigned.

Public memory

We need April 1969 Anand Bazar Patrika

• This ০৩ অগস্ট ২০১৮ 03 August 2018 letter to editor Anand Bazar Patrika details are not accurate but mention indicates still incidence is still discussed and still is in public memory
• 16 August 2017 Letter to Editor Anand Bazar Patrika

Sources available with US university libraries

• The University of Michigan Library

• • "Now (Volume 5, Part 2)". S. Sen. 1969: 3. OCLC 1774567. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

• • "Calcutta Municipal Gazette Volume 89". Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. 1968: 391. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

• University of California
  • Ghosh, Srikanta. Social Order in India, 1948–1988. India, Ashish Publishing House, 1990. Page 188
• the University of Virginia
  • • "Dinaman" Volume 5, Issue 2 1969

Sources requests to be relisted at resource exchange

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive 124#Now by S.Sen
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive 124#Calcutta Municipal Gazette Volume 89

En Bengali transliteration for search help

• 1969 ১৯৬৯ April এপ্রিল 6 ৬
• Rabindra Sarobar রবীন্দ্র সরোবর
• Stadium স্টেডিয়াম
• Ashok Kumar অশোক কুমার Nite রাত্রি , রজনী
• Tulu Babu Mukherjee টুলু বাবু মুখার্জী
• Jyoti Basu জ্যোতি বসু
• Bijoy Banerjee বিজয় ব্যানার্জি Bandyopadhyay বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
• Ajoy Mukherjee অজয় মুখার্জী Mukhōpādhyāẏa মুখোপাধ্যায়
• United Front (West Bengal) যুক্তফ্রণ্ট
• Sambhu Chandra Ghose শম্ভু  ঘোষ
• Atulya Ghosh অতুল্য ঘোষ
• Ila Pal Choudhury ইলা পালচৌধুরী
• Bijoy Kumar Banerjee Speakership term( 8th March,1967 to 2nd May, 1971)
• Jyoti Basu 1st Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal In office 25 February 1969 – 16 March 1970
• the University of Michigan
• Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Michigan

See also

• Yashwantrao Chavan then Minister of Home affairs of India
• Mihir Sen
• Smear campaign
• Suppression of evidence
• Southern Avenue, Kolkata

Further reading

• Bari, Radha Krishna. Ajeẏa purusha Ajaẏakumāra. India, Tāmralipta Svādhīnatā Saṃgrāma Itihāsa Kamiṭi, 1990. (Language Bengali) Page 190?
• Ananda Bazar Patrika, 28th March, 1969
• Ananda Bazar Patrika, 8th October, 1969

Categories to be added

Category:Crimes against women Category:Rape Category:Sexual harassment Category:Sexual violence at riots and crowd disturbances Category:Crime in Kolkata Category:Violence against women in India