Notwithstanding five death sentences in as many months, regardless of the nationwide uproar post RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case crimes against women continued to hit headlines in Bengal with the latest being a 27-year-old woman professional getting killed in a car mishap in a bid to escape from five miscreants who were chasing her vehicle in another car for several miles.

The victim, S Chattoadhyay was an event management professional, and a resident of Chandannagar in Hooghly district some 35 km from Kolkata.

The incident took place at Panagarh on the Durgapur Expressway connecting Kolkata and New Delhi in the night intervening Sunday and Monday, sources said. The victim and her two colleagues were going to Gaya in Bihar to attend some function.

According to the police the vehicle of the victim had refueled at a petrol pump near Panagarh. While they were at the petrol pump a white car with five passengers stopped by them and then began to follow them. "As soon as they approached the highway, the men in the other car started making lewd remarks towards the victim and began driving recklessly," he said adding the white grazed the victim's vehicle several times making them to take the service road and enter a narrower road in great speed.

In the process the car collided with a public toilet and overturned, sources said adding the chasing vehicle then sped away. The while vehicle had been detained but their occupants were yet to be arrested police said.

The incident took place hours before CM Mamata Banerjee told in a meeting in Kolkata to see that the "brothers help the sisters." She said "I entrust my brothers with the responsibility of protecting our sisters and preventing" such incidents in the future. She also said how there was "no gender disparity, which is a very positive development. The government will certainly do its part, but I believe you (brothers) can take a proactive role in this matter."

She also said how her "Government brought the Aparajita bill against to help curb incidents of rape." Expressing concern at the rising incident of attacks on women Opposition BJP said how "the criminals had been brought to size in UP whereas in Bengal they were flourishing in the Trinamool Congress raj."