Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 28 : Union Minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar strongly criticised the West Bengal government on Saturday following back-to-back crimes reported from educational institutions, including the recent RG Kar Medical College rape case. He said the government had no right to stay in their post if it could not ensure a safe environment for students.
Majumdar emphasised that female students are not safe in West Bengal's educational institutions, citing the RG Kar Medical College incident and the latest law college case.
While speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, "Both the incidents (recent and RG Kar rape case) happened inside an educational institution... Inability of the state government to stop these is a pathetic failure... Someone should take responsibility," Majumdar said.
He condemned the state government's pathetic failure in stopping these incidents and questioned their ability to maintain law and order and demanded that someone take responsibility for these failures, suggesting that the government has no right to remain in power if it cannot ensure safety.
Reacting to the state government's justification, he further said, "You say police can't be everywhere... It must be at least accepted that the government is not able to maintain an environment of safety, and with such failures, they have no right to stay in their post."
Earlier, Kolkata Police arrested the guard of the South Calcutta Law College, where a female student was allegedly gang-raped.
Kolkata police said, "Guard of the Law College, Pinaki Banerjee (55) has also been arrested in the case."
A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside the South Calcutta Law College in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday.
Earlier, the police had arrested three accused within 24 hours. The three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law college.
According to the police, the accused named in the FIR will be produced before the ACJM of Alipore, South 24 Parganas, with a prayer to remand them to Police Custody for a proper investigation into the case.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) took suo motu cognisance of the incident on Friday. Taking immediate notice, NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar expressed deep concern and wrote to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, urging a time-bound investigation under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Meanwhile, the alleged gangrape has triggered a political row between the leaders of the ruling TMC and the opposition BJP.