The Trinamul Congress on Tuesday wrote to the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, seeking the panel’s intervention in an incident in which five members of a family, including a two-year-old child, had been killed and their home set on fire at Khaiwajpur near Allahabad in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.

The letter was written by Trinamul’s “fact-finding” committee that had visited the site of the murders. The committee also sought an appointment with the NHRC chairperson to discuss the incident.

“The NHRC has acknowledged it received our letter but is yet to give us an appointment. We demand its intervention as there are serious violations of fundamental human rights at Khaiwajpur and the family (of the deceased) complained to us about serious lapses in the police investigation,” said Trinamul MP Dola Sen, who had headed the five-member “fact-finding” team.

“In our state (Bengal), the chief minister visits the spot and meets the victims to be with them like what she did in the case of Bogtui massacre. She also set an example by punishing her party colleague or cops in public. But in the case of Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister did not visit the spot to be with the victims’ family who lost five of their members. We want to see the NHRC intervene in the issue,” said Sen.