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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\nSome of the cars that were vandalised by the accused<\/span><\/p>\n KOLKATA: Three masked men with gamchhas draped over their face used the cover of the night to smash the windscreens and rear windows of four cars parked on Graham\u2019s Lane near Tollygunge in the early hours of Wednesday. The car owners are all members of Graham\u2019s Lane Welfare & Cultural Society. Police have arrested the three accused whose vandalism was caught on CCTV.
Locals alleged the attack was retaliatory in nature, following a complaint filed at Jadavpur PS by locals against two youths from a nearby slum. The damaged cars belong to D Palan, Kakoli Naha and Kaushik Nandy.
\u201cWe have arrested Biplab Saha, Subodh Ghosh and Subhankar Indu alias Pacha, all residents of nearby areas, for the attack in Graham\u2019s Lane,\u201d said acting DC (south suburban) Biswajit Ghosh.
\u201cThese young men have been fomenting trouble in the locality for the past year-and-a-half. They would assemble in groups in front of our house, openly drink alcohol and harass people. This would continue till late at night. We have been suffering this all through the lockdown. Even though there is a night curfew at present, they don\u2019t care. We finally decided to report the matter to police after they violated the complete lockdown on Saturday. This is why they chose another lockdown day to hit back,\u201d said the owner of one of the damaged cars.
Ashok Ghosh, another local, claimed the youths even switched off the street lights. \u201cAfter we lodged a written complaint, police had come to check. We handed them evidence in the form of CCTV footage. On Wednesday morning, we found the cars damaged. Initially clueless, we checked the CCTV footage and found that the youths had come here at night and committed the crime,\u201d he said.
The footage shows two youths (out of three) moving towards the parked cars well past midnight. One of them hurls bricks into the car\u2019s windscreen, smashing it, before fleeing. \u201cWe have drawn up a case in this regard and are investigating all angles,\u201d said an officer.
Locals also said the youths posed a health hazard in the neighbourhood by ignoring social distancing norms and moving about without masks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n