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Kolkata, Oct 11 (IANS) West Bengal Leader of Opposition (LoP) and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said the state should follow the Uttar Pradesh model in taking decisive steps in punishing rape accused.
The BJP leader reacted strongly after a second-year medical student from Odisha was allegedly gang-raped outside the premises of a private medical college and hospital in Durgapur in West Burdwan district on Friday evening.
Addressing a press conference, the LOP officer said, “The accused should not be kept in custody for long. He should be eliminated as soon as possible. The encounter should be carried out only after the arrest of the accused on a serious criminal charge like rape.”
He said arrest alone cannot be the last word in cases of rape or violence against women.
“We have to take proactive steps like the chief ministers – Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis of Maharashtra, Himanta Biswa Sarma of Assam, N Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh,” the LOP official said.
According to the police, the medical student had come out of the college campus for dinner with a male friend on Friday night when a group of youths riding motorcycles started following them and passed objectionable remarks.
Police said the men allegedly chased the male friend, dragged the female medical student to a wooded area behind the campus and gang-raped her.
The accused also snatched the woman’s mobile phone and threw it away.
The police have registered a case based on the complaint of a female medical student and started action.
Police have detained the victim’s male friend for questioning.
The LOP officer also questioned Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s silence on the rape incident.
Demanding a statement from CM Banerjee on the rape incident, BJP MLA from Nandigram said, “Such incidents are happening again and again. The Chief Minister talks about everything. But now when such heinous incidents happen in the state, she does not say anything. The Chief Minister has not said anything on violence against women since the Kasba rape case. Why is she (CM Banerjee) silent on violence against women?”
He also said that the BJP will organize a ‘big movement’ to protest against violence against women in the state.
–IANS
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