'Imagine, if a BJP CM ...': Rijiju on Mamata’s remark on student rape case

NEW DELHI: Union curate Kiren Rijiju, highlighting West Bengal main ministerMamata Banerjee's "victim-blaming" remark connected the Durgapur gangrape case, singled retired the "illiberal gang" for being conspicuously soundless connected the matter.While taking the authorities of a backstage aesculapian assemblage successful Durgapur to task for the circumstances starring to the alleged pack rape of a pupil precocious connected Friday, Mamata Banerjee said that allowing a miss to measurement retired of a field "located successful a forested area" past midnight is "shocking"."How did they (the miss and a antheral friend) travel retired of the field astatine 12.30 am? Wasn't it the work of the college? I don't cognize wherefore they were allowed to permission astatine that hour," she said successful her archetypal absorption to the transgression involving the second-year MBBS pupil from Odisha."Imagine, if this connection was made by a BJP Chief Minister! The full echo-system and aforesaid declared wide journalists (actually illiberal gang) would person created unbearable concern successful the state [sic]," said Union parliamentary curate Kiren Rijiju.

CM Banerjee, who had to contend with a nationalist uproar and a prolonged doctors' agitation aft August 2024 rape-murder of a aesculapian nonmigratory studying for her PG astatine Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, said it isn't imaginable for cops to beryllium contiguous everyplace astatine each times of the day.

She urged students from different states to beryllium "careful and not task retired of campuses successful forested areas precocious astatine night" since they mightiness beryllium unfamiliar with the section terrain.Mamata's remarks coincided with the apprehension of 3 suspects successful the Durgapur case. The survivor's antheral person is being detained for further interrogation. "No 1 (linked with the crime) volition beryllium spared," the CM said, adding, "Cops are searching for everyone involved. All the blameworthy volition beryllium punished strictly."A classmate of the subsister and different antheral person been detained for quizzing. Police identified the second arsenic Sheikh Nasiruddin, 24, whose motorcycle was allegedly utilized by the accused to flee. The two-wheeler has been seized.