Former Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh, in a pointy rebuttal, declared Kolkata because the “most secure state” in India and lambasted Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, urging him to handle crimes in BJP-governed areas like Unnao, Hathras, Prayagraj, and Delhi.
Ghosh’s remarks got here in response to Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who had expressed outrage over the alleged gang rape of a legislation scholar inside a South Kolkata school. Pradhan asserted that regardless of Kolkata’s wealthy legacy in ladies’s schooling –citing establishments like “RG Kar Medical Faculty and South Calcutta Regulation Faculty”-the state has witnessed a “rise in horrific crimes”, together with the gang rape of the coed.
“Inform Dharmendra Pradhan to speak about crimes in opposition to ladies in locations like Unnao, Hathras, Prayagraj, and Delhi first… Police take motion in West Bengal. Social crimes have lessened within the state. That is the most secure state for ladies,” Ghosh informed information company ANI.
Pradhan had alleged that the attackers have been “goons related to the ruling TMC” and warned that the federal government’s silence displays a “very harmful mindset in a republic.” Calling the TMC a contemporary extension of the “outdated Congress tradition,” Pradhan demanded decisive political motion: “They have to be thrown out — solely then will peace return to Bengal.”
‘What Can Be Performed If Good friend Rapes Good friend?’
Senior Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee’s remarks on the alleged rape case drew huge flak on Friday, triggering additional political confrontation between the ruling TMC and the Opposition BJP.
Reacting to the Kolkata gang rape case, Banerjee had stated: “What will be finished if a good friend rapes his good friend?” The BJP described his feedback as “disgraceful.”
“What will be finished if a good friend rapes his good friend? Will the police be in colleges? This was finished by college students to a different scholar. Who will shield her (the sufferer)?” Banerjee requested, including, “Who does all this criminality and molestation? Some males do it. So, who ought to ladies battle in opposition to? Girls ought to battle in opposition to these perverted males.”
Sufferer’s Allegations
In keeping with the police grievance filed by the survivor, a legislation scholar was lured right into a guard’s room adjoining to the coed union workplace, the place she was allegedly sexually assaulted by three males. The accused have been recognized as Monojit Mishra, a 31-year-old former scholar and practising felony lawyer, together with two present college students—Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20).
The survivor alleges that she was forcibly confined contained in the room, the place Mishra sexually assaulted her whereas the opposite two stood by and assisted. In her assertion, she recounts being struck on the pinnacle with a hockey stick, denied entry to an inhaler throughout a panic assault, and threatened with dying if she dared to talk out.
A medical examination has corroborated her account, with medical doctors documenting indicators of bodily assault, together with chunk marks, scratches, and proof according to compelled penetration.
All three accused have been arrested and remanded to police custody for 4 days because the investigation continues.
