On Sunday, October 12, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a controversial statement while speaking to the media about the recent Durgapur rape case. She was seen advising colleges not to allow girls to go out at night following the alleged gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur.
"The girls should not be allowed to go outside college at night. They have to protect themselves also. There is a forest area. Police are searching all the people. Nobody will be excused. Whoever is guilty will be punished strictly," CM Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday in talks with reporters.
On Friday night, October 10, three men outside a college campus in West Bengal's Durgapur allegedly gang-raped a medical student from Odisha. The victim is currently unable to walk and is on bedrest, receiving medical treatment.
According to officials, the victim, a 20-year-old medical student from Odisha's Jaleswar, was allegedly gang-raped by three men outside her college campus on Friday. The men took her to a jungle outside the campus when she had gone out for dinner with a friend around 10 pm; they snatched her phone and raped her in the forest, according to PTI.
“One of her classmates took her out on the pretext of getting something to eat, but when two or three other men arrived, he abandoned her and fled. They raped her,” the student's father told reporters.