As people around the globe get to know about the grim reality of women’s safety in India, a popular politician has sparked outrage after he blamed the Kolkata gangrape survivor for going to college.
Last week, another horrible incident came to surface where a 24-year-old law student was gang raped by three men.
The incident took place inside the premises of South Calcutta Law College.
This has also caused widespread public outrage and political backlash in West Bengal.
Trinamool Congress party member, Madan Mitra, while talking to the media recently, remarked, “This incident has sent a message to girls that if someone calls you when the college is closed offering you a position in the unit, then don’t go, nothing good will come of it.”
“If that girl had not gone there, this wouldn’t have happened. If she had informed someone before going or had taken a couple of friends with her, then this wouldn’t have happened,” he remarked.
According to the student’s police complaint, she was raped by three men – Manojit Mishra, a former Trinamool Chhatra Parishad office-bearer now working on an ad hoc teaching assignment, and two junior students, Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed.
She alleged that the trio forced her into the college guard room, undressed and gang-raped her, filmed the assault, and threatened to leak the footage if she approached police.
“When I resisted, one of them hit me with a hockey stick,” she said. “I touched his feet, but he did not let me go.” She also reported that she was confined for over three hours and suffered a panic attack. The assailants only allowed her to use an inhaler, denying her further help.
