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The West Bengal Police connected Thursday (October 31, 2025) filed a chargesheet successful transportation with the gang-rape of a aesculapian student against six persons including the classmate of the survivor.
Charges person been pressed against the six accused for rape, gangrape, extortion, dacoity among different sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The chargesheet submitted by Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate comes 20 days aft the horrific crime.
The intersexual battle subsister is an MBBS pupil astatine a private medical college. astatine Durgapur successful Paschim Bardhaman district. The pupil had reportedly gone retired of the college with a antheral person connected the nighttime of October 10. She was allegedly gang-raped by unidentified men successful a wood country adjacent the college campus.
While the constabulary had initially arrested 5 accused — each locals successful transportation with the transgression — connected October 14, the survivor’s 23-year-old classmate, a nonmigratory of Kaliachak successful Bengal’s Malda district, was arrested later. Before the submission of the chargesheet, a trial recognition parade was held astatine a correctional location wherever the accused are lodged.
“The chargesheet was formed aft conducting a speedy investigation. This is the occurrence of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate. We are hopeful that the proceedings volition beryllium completed wrong 2 months and the proceedings process volition begin,” Special Public Prosecutor Bibhas Chatterjee told the media connected Thursday.
The intersexual assault, which came successful little than a twelvemonth aft the rape and execution of a doc astatine R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, has erstwhile again raised questions connected information and information of women successful West Bengal.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks that women should not beryllium allowed to travel extracurricular successful the nighttime clip had evoked crisp disapproval from her governmental opponents and radical astatine large.
“Especially miss children astatine nighttime time...they should not beryllium allowed to travel outside. They person to support themselves also...” Ms. Banerjee had said connected October 12. She had besides urged private medical colleges to instrumentality work for their students, arsenic the constabulary could not support a ticker connected each house.
