Kolkata: West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has termed the Kaliaganj rape and murder as a 'love affair'. To confirm her claim, CM Mamta has made a WhatsApp message a proof. Addressing a press conference at Nabanna (State Secretariat), Mamta Banerjee claimed, "We are very sad to know all this, but we have seen the WhatsApp messages... This is a matter related to love affair. The doctors also said that she (the minor) had consumed poison. This is a case of suicide. The police is probing it."
Means, the investigation of the case is still in the initial stage, and in the meantime CM Mamta Banerjee is trying to distance herself from the sensitive issue like rape by making such claims. Let us tell you that the body of a 17-year-old Dalit girl was found floating in a canal on the morning of April 21 in Kaliaganj in Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The relatives of the victim had alleged that the girl was raped before being murdered. In protest, the local people blocked the road and burnt tyres. At the same time, when the BJP came out to protest with the local people in this matter, one of its workers, Mrityunjay Barman, was murdered, which has also been blamed on the Bengal Police.
Chief Minister of West Bengal egged on the police to be trigger-happy,said, “Are you wearing bangles on your wrists” (ABP) ?
So enthused,a policeman called Moazzem shot dead an innocent Rajbongshi young man called Mrityunjay Barman,cousin of Bishnu,a BJP Panchayat Samiti member !
— Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) April 28, 2023
At the same time, in North Dinajpur district, last week, four police officers have been suspended for dragging the dead body of a minor girl on the road. The four suspended policemen were posted as Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) at Kaliaganj and Raiganj police stations. The video of these policemen dragging the dead body also went viral. The victim's family has already approached the Calcutta High Court demanding a CBI probe into the incident. They alleges that the Bengal Police is not investigating properly. Javed Akhtar has been accused of raping and killing the girl.
Breaking news #WestBengal
Allegedly a person named Javed and his friends have gang-raped and murdered of a minor hindi girl in Ganguly Bagan, Kaliyaganj.
Local Hindu Community is protesting for harsh punishment for culprits
Sadly, this is not the first such incident in WB pic.twitter.com/bpStrv4EIw
— Ashwini Shrivastava (@AshwiniSahaya) April 21, 2023
According to media reports, the girl went missing midway on April 20 while returning home from tuition. The police had arrested two people including Javed Akhtar in this case, these people knew the victim. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has also taken cognizance of the matter. Although CM Mamta is calling it a matter of love affair, but the thing to note is that this is not the first time Mamta Banerjee has made such a claim. Even before this, she has even accused the victims of lying to defame her government.
Suzette Jordan Rape Case:-
On February 6, 2012, Suzette Jordan, an Anglo-Indian woman, was gang-raped by five men in a moving car while she was returning home from Park Street, Kolkata. Immediately after this news came out, CM Mamata Banerjee gave a clean chit to the accused. She described the incident as a fabricated story. CM Mamta had said that all this was done only to defame her government. Not only this, while talking to a news channel, Mamta's party MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar raised questions on the character of the victim and also denied the angle of rape. At the same time, the then Transport Minister of Bengal also questioned the character of the victim and termed her complaint as fake. But, three years after the incident, in 2015, a Kolkata court upheld the rape charges in the Park Street case and accused Nasir Khan,
Katwa rape case: -
In another case in Katwa, Burdwan in 2012, Mamta Banerjee denied the allegations of rape even before the investigation was completed. She had even said, "A political party is doing all this, shouting rape and rape. They are doing a drama to malign the name of West Bengal. In this case too, later the accused named Nayan Sheikh and Farid Sheikh were arrested, who were the leaders of Mamta's party TMC." However, he was acquitted by the court due to lack of evidence. In 2013, during a debate in the state assembly about the increasing cases of rape in Bengal, CM Mamta had said that it was because of the increase in the population of the state. She also blamed modernization, increase in shopping malls and multiplexes for the increasing cases of rape.
Nadia rape case: -
In April 2022, a minor girl died after being gang-raped at a birthday party in Hanskhali, Nadia district of West Bengal. The girl's family had claimed that the main accused in the case is the son of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) panchayat member, who was arrested by the police. At the same time, CM Mamta Banerjee raised questions on the claim of gang rape of the family. CM Banerjee had said, "How do you know that she was raped, was she pregnant? Either it was a matter of love affair or she was ill." CM Mamta had also said that, "If the couple is in a relationship then how can we stop them. It is not Uttar Pradesh that I can do this in the name of love jihad." When this case went to the Calcutta High Court, the court insisted that the Bengal Police had already collected many necessary evidences in this case. Did not The court also expressed displeasure over the fact that the blood-stained bedsheet was not seized by the police from the victim's house, as well as the funeral of the victim was done in a hurry, due to which many important clues were missed. After which the matter was handed over to the CBI and the Central Investigation Agency, while investigating, filed a charge sheet against the 9 accused in the matter and arrested the TMC panchayat leader. However, the court's decision has not yet come on this matter.
After seeing all these cases, the question arises that despite being a woman, why does CM Mamata Banerjee show such haste on rape cases and give such insensitive statements, which are going to rub names on the wounds of the victim's family?
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