Tension gripped Kolkata’s Bhowanipore area on Tuesday after enraged locals attacked the father and stepmother of 11-year-old Suranjana Singh, whose body had been found a day earlier in a partially hanging position from a noose inside a cupboard at their Alipore residence in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas.

According to the police, Suranjana was the niece of Sanjay Roy -- the main accused in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case -- who is currently serving a life sentence for the killing of an on-duty doctor.

Eyewitnesses described scenes of public anger as residents confronted Bhola Singh and his wife Pooja, accusing them of cruelty toward the child. Locals dragged the stepmother “by her hair” and beat her, while the father “was also thrashed with shoes,” police said.

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