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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) termed the gang rape of a aesculapian pupil successful Durgapur successful Paschim Bardhaman territory arsenic "shocking", and said that nary accused would beryllium spared.
Speaking to reporters astatine Kolkata airdrome earlier leaving for natural disaster-hit northbound Bengal to oversee alleviation and rehabilitation work, Ms. Banerjee said her authorities has zero tolerance for specified incidents.
"This is simply a shocking incident... We person zero tolerance for specified crimes. Three accused person been arrested and constabulary are conducting hunt for others. Nobody volition beryllium spared," she said successful her archetypal absorption to the incident.
The aesculapian assemblage student, hailing from Jaleswar successful Odisha's Balasore district, was allegedly raped by immoderate men successful Durgapur, constabulary said connected Saturday (October 11).
The incidental took spot extracurricular the field of the backstage aesculapian assemblage connected Friday nighttime erstwhile the second-year pupil went retired with 1 of her friends for dinner.
Banerjee said that the instauration of which the pistillate is simply a pupil of besides bears work for the incident. "Private colleges indispensable guarantee information wrong and astir their campuses," she said.
