During
the reign of Mamatha Banerjee incidents of rape and such atrocities on women
are a continuing story in West Bengal. Her pooh-poohing of the allegations of
rape and other such atrocities against women before any enquiry is conducted and
blaming them on CPM saying that it is part of their conspiracy to malign her
and her government had immensely contributed to the rise of such incidents. Thus
it is not surprising that such incidents are still continuing. A few instances
of rape and molestation of women that had taken place during the last 2 months
are enumerated hereunder.
In the
beginning of June,2013, an Irish girl tourist was raped at Kolkata.
Consequently, she was admitted to the hospital due to excessive consumption of
sleeping pills which is suspected to be a case of attempt at suicide. Later on,
police had arrested a businessman in connection with the said rape.
Close
on the heels of the above incident, came the gory episode of brutal gang rape
and subsequent killing of a girl hailing from Kolkata who was a college student
and was in her early 20s.The incident had happened while she was on her way
back to home from the college when she was dragged and taken to a walled
compound where she was gang raped. The next day her body was recovered at a
village called Kamduni in 24-Parganas District which is hardly 20 Kms away from
Kolkata. As a matter of fact, this was an incident that had shocked human conscience.
In pursuance of registering case and enquiry police had arrested more than six
persons involved in the gory affair. Understandably, this horrible incident had
caused widespread condemnation all over the state including angry protests at several places. Interestingly,
for reasons not known, Mamatha Banerjee did not deny the charge of rape nor has
she blamed it on CPM as was the practice usually followed by her on such
occasions.
Similarly,
last week a French woman who is in her early 20s was molested in the wee hours
at 2.30 AM at Kolkata. The incident happened was thus: The French woman and her
companion have been staying at Kolkata for the past more than one year. While
they were going to their residence, they were accosted by four drunkards who
passed obscene comments and made advances towards the woman. Naturally, this
was objected to by her companion which infuriated the drunkards who had
attacked him and molested the woman and fled.
According to the police, on a complaint lodged by her companion a case
has been registered against the culprits and enquiry is under way to trace
them.
It is
recalled that prior to the above incident of molestation involving French woman, another similar
incident had taken place as early as on 25th March,2013 wherein a
South Korean girl who was proceeding to Howrah Railway Station was molested in
a bus at 7 AM. Even though the only suspect in this case was arrested he was
able to come out of jail on bail This
was so since the police did not book him under the amended Section 354 of Penal
Code which ensures stringent punishment for making sexual advances towards
foreigners. Instead of doing so, they had booked him under some weak sections
enabling him to secure bail easily.
Under
such circumstances prevailing in West Bengal right now, rape and atrocities on
women have become a continuing episode. It hardly needs any emphasis that
unless the cases of rape, molestation
and other such atrocities on women are entrusted with efficient and
honest police officers and the culprits are proceeded against ruthlessly under
stringent sections of Penal Code without batting an eye lid, the present
situation is bound to prevail in West Bengal. Needless to state, in such a
situation the safety of women will undoubtedly remain a far cry during the reign of Mamatha
Banerjee.
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