In the case of crime against women, the West Bengal government has introduced the Anti-Rape Bill in the Assembly, about which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her team say that this is a much stricter law than the new law of the Central Government – but the question is whether strict laws are really needed to control crime against women?
After all, why and when did Mamata Banerjee feel that the anger of doctors across the country and people of Bengal regarding the Kolkata rape-murder case is due to the weak law?
The disease is different, the medicine given is different
According to Mamata Banerjee’s new law, punishment can be pronounced, but questions are also being raised as to whether that method of quick justice is even practical? If the punishment is pronounced in a hurry as per the law, will justice really be done? And if the process is not right, will the attacker not be acquitted by the higher courts? There is also a danger of the innocent getting punished.
A new law would have been needed if the initial action had been taken properly, and justice was being delayed due to the legal process – but in the Kolkata rape-murder case, the initial action of the police itself is being questioned.
People are angry about the attitude of the police, not about the lack of any strict law. The way the police initially tried to hush up the matter by calling it a suicide. Wouldn’t the police have realized that the case is not of suicide, but of murder – and that too murder after rape.
What is the point of getting the case investigated by the police which calls a case of rape and murder a suicide? It is true that Mamata Banerjee had set a deadline of her own and had also said that if the police is unable to solve the case, she will recommend a CBI investigation – but before that the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation.
Was Mamata Banerjee misled in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case?
Did Kolkata Police mislead Mamata Banerjee or one of Mamata Banerjee’s trusted officers?
Who was trying to save the principal of the medical college?
The role of both the principal and the police appears to be the same in proving the rape and murder of the trainee doctor as a suicide – and the surprising thing is that the government of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was engaged in covering up the actions of both.
If this was not the case then why was Sandeep Ghosh transferred from the medical college on RG and made the principal of Calcutta Medical College in a hurry? It was only when the students of Calcutta Medical College locked the principal’s room and started protesting that the government came to its senses. The CBI, which is investigating the case, has arrested Sandeep Ghosh.
Even if it was a case of suicide, an investigation should have been done on that too, and till then Sandeep Ghosh could have been kept on waiting list. Why was there a hurry to make him principal with immediate effect?
It is clearly understood that the top officials of Mamata Banerjee’s government were trying to cover up the crimes of the principal and the laxity of the police – and Abhishek Banerjee’s disappearance from the scene in the entire episode raises further suspicion.
There was news that Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee was angry with the way the whole case was handled, and he was not seen standing with Mamata Banerjee anywhere. Later, when TMC leader Kunal Ghosh went to meet the victim’s family, he admitted that there was a mistake on his part.
Why does Mamata Banerjee do politics in rape cases?
Not only in the Kolkata rape-murder case, in earlier rape cases too, Mamata Banerjee has been blaming the leftists and sometimes the BJP. From the Park Street rape case in 2012 to the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case, Mamata Banerjee’s attitude has been exactly the same.
Moreover, despite being the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee also came out on the road against the protest of doctors and others regarding the Kolkata rape-murder case, and she also started marching with her team.
1. In 2013, when Mamata Banerjee visited the area 10 days after the Kamduni gang rape incident, she had to face the anger of the women there. On seeing Mamata Banerjee, a woman shouted, ‘Have you come here to show your face?’
Mamata Banerjee had found politics in that too, and had called the people protesting against her as political opponents. Mamata Banerjee had said, ‘The people here are supporters of the CPM… I am sad to say that the CPM is doing politics in this matter.’ Then Mamata Banerjee also claimed that all the people arrested in that case were supporters of the CPM.
2. Similarly, in 2021, news came that rape complaints were being suppressed in police stations across West Bengal, even then Mamata Banerjee’s silence surprised everyone.
3. There was a lot of controversy over Mamata Banerjee’s statement after the news of gang rape of a minor in Nadia district of West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee was asking, ‘How do you know that she was raped? Was she pregnant? Or was it a case of love affair? Or was she ill?’
These are the old stands and statements of Mamata Banerjee, which raise questions on the stand of the Trinamool Congress leader on the crimes against women in West Bengal.
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