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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party connected Saturday upped the ante against Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities aft a aesculapian pupil was allegedly gang-raped successful Paschim Bardhaman district. BJP accused the authorities of turning the authorities into nightmare for women’s information done its deliberate argumentation of appeasement.In a societal media station connected X, BJP person and Union curate Sukanta Majumdar said that main curate Mamata Banerjee has turned "West Bengal into a harmless haven for rapists and criminals.""After the horrific rape of a young pistillate doc astatine R.G. Kar Hospital, yet different horrifying transgression has emerged! A second-year aesculapian pupil astatine a backstage aesculapian assemblage successful Durgapur has been gang-raped! The survivor, a pupil from Jaleswar successful Odisha, was allegedly abducted portion extracurricular the field and brutally assaulted successful a adjacent forest," the Union curate said.
"Under the failed and lawless regularisation of main curate Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal has turned into a nightmare for women’s safety. Across the authorities — from villages to cities, hospitals to homes women are unsafe everywhere. The administration’s deliberate argumentation of appeasement has crippled constabulary investigations, giving convulsive criminals a escaped hand. Mamata Banerjee has turned West Bengal into a harmless haven for rapists and criminals," helium added.
BJP person Amit Malviya besides attacked Mamata Banerjee, claiming that the incidental has triggered a monolithic outrage successful Durgapur. He besides shared video of radical sloganeering against Mamata authorities successful Durgapur."The memories of the horrific rape and execution of a woman doc astatine RG Kar Medical College and Hospital person resurfaced. A second-year aesculapian pupil from IQ City Medical College and Hospital successful Durgapur (West Bengal) was gang-raped successful a adjacent wood country by Wasif Ali and his associates.
The survivor, a nonmigratory of Odisha, is presently undergoing treatment, and her connection has been recorded," Malviya said.
"The brutal transgression has triggered monolithic protests crossed Durgapur, with radical demanding swift justness and accountability from the Mamata Banerjee government. West Bengal is not harmless for women," helium added."This repeated nonaccomplishment of instrumentality and bid exposes a disturbing signifier nether Mamata Banerjee’s administration. The West Bengal Police indispensable guarantee a transparent and impartial investigation, dissimilar the RG Kar MCH case, which the Kolkata Police mishandled nether instructions, truthful that the blameworthy look the harshest punishment nether the law," Malviya said successful different station connected X.
"West Bengal is not harmless for women. Until the TMC authorities is held accountable, women crossed the authorities volition proceed to unrecorded successful fear. Mamata Banerjee indispensable spell successful 2026," helium added.Meanwhile, West Bengal curate Shashi Panja said that BJP should not politicise transgression against women. She claimed that BJP views specified incidental done a governmental lens."The parents person arrived from Odisha and person expressed religion successful the ongoing investigation, and the unfortunate is being looked after," Panja said."BJP should not politicise transgression against women. BJP views specified incidental done a governmental lens which is astir unwarranted. And we donot privation to reiterate that Kolkata is 1 of the safest City successful each implicit India. Our authorities works for women and miss empowerment. The main curate doesnot compromise with immoderate benignant of injustice against women. we person to hold for the probe to beryllium completed. BJP should not effort to instrumentality a governmental vantage from specified incidents," she added.This comes aft a aesculapian assemblage pupil from Odisha was allegedly raped by unidentified men successful West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district. The incidental took spot connected Friday nighttime extracurricular a backstage aesculapian assemblage field successful Durgapur, erstwhile the second-year pupil went retired for meal with a friend, according to her family.The aesculapian student, hailing from Jaleswar successful Odisha, is presently receiving attraction astatine a adjacent hospital, a constabulary serviceman said."On the ground of a ailment lodged by the household members of the aesculapian student, we person started an investigation," helium said.Talking to reporters, the parents of the pupil said they reached Durgapur this greeting aft getting a telephone from friends of their daughter.The parent alleged that her girl was "gang-raped" astir 10 p.m. connected Friday erstwhile she went retired of the assemblage field with 1 of her friends for dinner."We got a telephone from her friends, and heard of the incident. We came present this greeting and lodged a ailment with the police.
I person heard that the assemblage performed good academically, and this is wherefore we sent our girl to survey medicine here," the student's begetter said.An archetypal probe revealed that the pupil went extracurricular the field with her person astir 8-8.30 p.m. connected Friday, the constabulary serviceman said."The person near her unsocial erstwhile 3 unidentified men arrived there. The men snatched her telephone and took her to a jungle extracurricular the campus, wherever they raped her.
She was threatened with dire consequences if she told anyone astir the incident," the serviceman said.The accused besides demanded wealth from the medic to instrumentality her mobile phone, helium said.The connection of the pupil has been recorded, the serviceman said."We spoke to the victim's person past night. We are trying to find retired immoderate CCTV footage. A forensic squad volition sojourn the spot to cod evidence," the serviceman said.A squad of the National Commission for Women (NCW) is heading towards Durgapur to conscionable the unfortunate and her parents."Crime against women is connected the emergence successful Bengal. The constabulary are not taking immoderate proactive steps successful specified cases. This is rather unfortunate. I volition petition the main curate to travel guardant and enactment successful tandem to apprehension the emergence of specified crimes," NCW subordinate Archana Majumdar said.
