Bengal is plagued by incidents of rape and murder: five rapes in three days

Bengal continued to rapidly climb the ladder to become what the opposition and sociologists called a “rape capital” of India, where sexual crimes against women, especially minors, occur almost daily. Even a sustained, three-month-long ‘apolitical movement’ that brought life to a near standstill in Calcutta and Siliguri seemed to have failed to bring the police administration and police force into line.

criminals, say the critics.

“Bengal is fast emerging as a rape capital of India. The criminals are convinced that the police cannot do anything to them because top political leaders are supporting them,” said Manoranjan Byapari, MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Go to North 24 Parganas.

On Saturday, a man was arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in the Gaighata area of ​​the district.

Local BJP MLA Subrata Thakur said, “The family members of the accused along with local Trinamool Congress leaders are threatening the victim’s family.” Local TMC leader Prasenjit Ghosh denied such allegations. Move to North Bengal.

Friday’s incident in Gaighata took place within 24 hours after another minor girl was raped in a similar manner in Kumargram in Alipurduar district. The girl was kidnapped and raped in a nearby forest while bathing in a river.

The culprit was arrested on Saturday, police SP Y Raghuvangshi said. The Kumargram incident followed a rape and murder that took place in Falakata, a few kilometers away, in the same district where a toddler was raped and murdered on Thursday by two persons, one of whom – a 42-year-old man – was lynched by the local population. while his accomplice was

subsequently arrested, sources said.

Locals staged a Kolkata-like movement over the past two days, blocking roads to demand justice for the victim. Back to South Bengal. A similar incident took place in Domkal in Murshidabad district. On Saturday, a middle-aged person was arrested on charges of raping a seven-year-old minor girl.

Locals said the victim’s alleged great-uncle lured her to his room with chocolates and raped her there on Thursday evening.

A similar report was reported from nearby Burdwan district where a schoolgirl was raped on Saturday, sources said.

Domkal happened within hours after a newlywed woman was snatched from her husband and raped under a flyover at Kalyanai in Nadia district in the early hours of Friday.

Four suspects, all motorists, have been arrested in connection with this.

The back-to-back incidents took place within a few weeks of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl at Mahishmari village in Kultali near Joynagar in South 24 Parganas district. Locals went on a rampage after the incident set the local police station on fire, claiming that police refused to take action in time when parents reported the incident.

A similar incident took place the following week, a few kilometers away in Gosaba, where a 60-year-old man raped a minor and was subsequently arrested during both incidents.

The back-to-back

The incidents took place last month, almost within a week after many were lynched in East Midnapore’s Patashpur village for raping and poisoning a housewife, sources said.

As the police did nothing, the angry neighbors dragged the alleged perpetrator from his home and bludgeoned him to death, police said.

With the frequent incidents of rape – in some places involving murder – taking place against the backdrop of an ongoing agitation following the rape and murder of a postgraduate female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, sociologists have joined opposition politicians joined in condemning the government’s lax approach in tackling such crimes.

“Where the government and the police administration itself side with the criminals by shielding them, as we have seen in the case of RG Kar, what do you expect from the local police officers… they are afraid to make arrests because they do not know which criminal is one

TMC man or who has whose hands behind his hand… so we have been consistently demanding the resignation of the state police minister, who is also Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,” said Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari. Central Committee Member Sujan Chakrabarty said that “where the police act in a biased manner, the people not only lose confidence in them, but also the criminals are emboldened… these

rapes are an aftermath of that encouragement”

Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury said, “The way the lynching incidents are happening, we may see more such incidents after rape as people are fast losing confidence in the police,” he said.