Opposition parties in West Bengal on Thursday lashed out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee following the gang-rape of a tribal woman at the behest of a kangaroo court in Birbhum district.
Expressing deep concern over the law and order situation in the State, the left Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Congress accused the Government of giving indulgence to criminals which has led to anarchy. “This incident is gruesome but unfortunately incidents of crime against women have been steadily rising and we have become No.1 in the country now. This rise started ever since our CM described the Park Street rape as fabricated,” left Front chairman Biman Bose said. Bose was referring to the 2012 rape of an Anglo-Indian woman in the heart of the city which Banerjee described as “fabricated” and aimed at maligning her Government.
However, she was subsequently proved wrong when the case was cracked and the perpetrators of the crime were arrested. “Why is the CM silentIJ Only because this Government has been patronising and harbouring criminals that such a situation has arrived that not a single day passes when rapes and molestations do not occur,” Bose added.