Murshidabad violence: 'We don't want the house or money... will the husband and son come back?' The pain of Parul who lost her loved ones

At the end of Murshidabad's Jafarabad village is the house where the rioters killed the father and son. The main doors of this house are broken. Pieces of bricks are still intact on the stairs. What thousands of rioters must have done to this house on Saturday can only be understood by looking at it.

The whole scene itself is telling the story of brutality. The terrorists had killed Hargobind Das and their son Chandan Das by dragging them out of the house. The funeral procession of father and son was carried out on the same day. In a corner of the house sits the elderly woman, Hargobind's wife Parul Das, calm, quiet, and silent...after a long time she speaks on her own...Ami chai na Mamta Didi Banglar bari (meaning I am Mamta Didi's Banglar house)..then she becomes silent...then she says in Bengali what will I do with money, will my husband and son come back if I take money? The family has refused to take financial help. Parul says, my husband and son were killed because we are Hindus.

I want the same punishment as my father was killed.

Chandan Das's 11-year-old son Akash said today is my father's fifth grade. Akash, who studies in class 8, says, what was the fault of my grandfather and father? How can people be so cruel? The brutal way in which my grandfather and father were killed. I want them to be punished in the same way.

Both had wounds all over their bodies.

Parul Das says we did not know anything. Thousands of people suddenly entered the village. They started pelting stones at the houses. They started looting. They attacked our house twice. But they did not succeed in entering the house. The third time they broke the door with big iron rods. After that, the rioters attacked the house from the roof, from the back, and all sides. The husband and son were pulled out by the neck and they were cut with sharp weapons...tears were flowing from her eyes and she was speaking. Hands were cut, legs were cut, and there was no part of the body where there were no marks of wounds.