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Time of India
42 minutes ago
- Politics
- Time of India
"Govt has a significant role in this": Father of RG Kar Medical College victim on gang rape in law college
A law student in Kolkata was allegedly gang-raped, sparking outrage. The father of a previous rape victim criticized the government. Police arrested three suspects, former students or staff, within 24 hours. Trinamool Congress condemned the incident and defended the swift police action. BJP alleged TMC's involvement. An investigation is underway, and the accused are in custody. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Nearly a year after the horrific RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case that jolted Kolkata, another gang rape of a student at a law college in South Kolkata has once again raised concern over safety of women in the City of father of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder victim spoke out against the alleged gangrape case in Kolkata's law college, expressing his frustration and disappointment with the recurring incidents of violence. He accused the government of having a significant role to play in preventing such incidents and that the accused should be severely said, "Such incidents are happening again and again. After what happened with my daughter, many people came out on the streets in protest. Even after that, such incidents continue to occur. People inside the college are committing such incidents. The government has a significant role in this, which is why all these incidents are happening. All three people arrested are from the TMC, so this political party should ensure that such incidents do not happen again. The accused should be severely punished." BJP West Bengal in a post on X alleged that the full form of TMC was Terror, Molester and Corruption. Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shashi Panja on Friday expressed her distress over the gang rape of the a press conference, Shashi Panja said, "There was an immediate postmortem and dissection to look at the names and the religion. You have to condemn the incident. You are now trying to show photographs. Trinamool Congress Student wing is not teaching the students to rape. The police took immediate action, and within 12 hours of the complaint, three people were caught. They are in custody, and the investigation is on. Their mobile phones have been seized, and the victim's statement has been taken. She has named the accused. It has been taken seriously. The BJP cannot even think the way Kolkata police swung into action. They started maligning since such swift action is missing in the BJP-ruled states. If they want to be in Bengal as a responsible Opposition, then they have to behave responsibly."A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday evening. The police have arrested all three accused within 24 three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law to the police, the accused named in the FIR will be produced before the A.C.J.M. of Alipore, South 24 Parganas, with a prayer to remand them to Police Custody for the purpose of a proper investigation into the alleged sexual assault took place between 7:30 pm and 10:50 pm on Wednesday within the law college premises. According to the official, one of the accused allegedly committed sexual assault, while the others were involved in the victim's family filed a police complaint against the accused, and the police have taken swift action in the of the accused, Monojit Mishra and Zaib Ahmed, were arrested on Thursday, near Siddhartha Shankar Roy Sishu Udyan, close to Talbagan Crossing in Kolkata. Pramit Mukhopadhyay was arrested later the same night at his residence. The police have seized the mobile phones of all three official had visited the site and kept it under protection till they had done a forensic examination. They requested custody remand for further investigation.
India Gazette
2 hours ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
"Bengal is not safe for women": BJP's Pradeep Bhandari slams TMC on Kolkata rape case
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 28 (ANI): BJP National Spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress over the Kolkata alleged gangrape case and said that West Bengal is not safe for women under the Mamata Banerjee government. 'Mamata Banerjee's government supports the rape of women in Bengal. The accused in the Kasba gangrape is an active member of Mamata Banerjee's party, Trinamool Congress. Mamata Banerjee runs and protects an army of goons in Bengal for her appeasement politics and political dominance. People of Trinamool Congress commit rape against women, erase evidence and the TMC government makes a one-week case. A person of Trinamool Congress has been found guilty in the Kasba gang rape. Bengal is not safe for women. Despite Mamata Banerjee being a woman chief minister, her thinking is anti-women,' Bhandari told ANI. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo-motu cognisance of the alleged gangrape of a law student at South Calcutta Law College in Kolkata's Kasba area on June 25, with NCW member Archana Majumdar expressing outrage over the incident. Speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, 'It's shocking. As a mother, as a woman of West Bengal, I am very annoyed. We have taken suo-motu cognisance, we have asked DGP to answer within 72 hours in detail, including arrests, sections, crime scene examinations, medical examination, and everything...I will be meeting the victim today or tomorrow. I talked with the officer in charge of the concerned PS also. He reported that the victim has been sent to Calcutta National Medical College for medical examination. Three of the accused have been arrested already. Whatever action is being taken, my question is - why does it happen? Where is the security of women, of girl students?' BJP leader Dilip Ghosh also echoed similar sentiments, stating, 'Whenever a crime occurs in West Bengal, a TMC leader is found to be involved. The most evil and anti-social elements are in TMC. Holding the TMC flag seems to grant immunity from police action.' He further criticised the state's law and order situation, saying, 'Such an incident happening with a college student in broad daylight shows the poor law and order in West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee has taken the entire police administration to the Rath Yatra in Digha, as if there are no other pressing issues in Bengal.' On Wednesday evening, a female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba. The police have arrested all 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 A.C.J.M. of Alipore, South 24 Parganas, with a prayer to remand them to Police Custody for a proper investigation into the case. The alleged sexual assault took place between 7:30 pm and 10:50 pm on Wednesday within the law college premises. According to the official, one of the accused allegedly committed sexual assault, while the others were involved in the crime. The victim's family filed a police complaint against the accused, and the police have taken swift action in the matter. Two of the accused, Monojit Mishra and Zaib Ahmed, were arrested on Thursday, near Siddhartha Shankar Roy Sishu Udyan, close to Talbagan Crossing in Kolkata. Pramit Mukhopadhyay was arrested later the same night at his residence. The police have seized the mobile phones of all three accused. The official had visited the site and kept it under protection till they had done a forensic examination. They requested custody remand for further investigation. (ANI)
Hans India
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Trinamool disowns student leader
Kolkata: After the 'gang-rape' of a law student in Kolkata triggered a political firestorm, the Trinamool Congress has admitted that the main accused is linked to the party's student wing but insisted that this would not come in the way of him getting the strictest possible punishment. The law student was allegedly raped at the South Calcutta Law College by Monojit Mishra - a 31-year-old former student of the college, who is now a practising lawyer - and two students, identified as 19-year-old Zaib Ahmed and 20-year-old Pramit Mukhopadhyay. Monojit Mishra is a member of the Trinamool Congress' student wing and the BJP has shared photographs of him with senior members of the ruling party, including MP, National General Secretary and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, and Health Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya. Holding a press conference on Friday, Bengal Minister Shashi Panja said in Bengali, "The West Bengal Assembly had passed the Aparajita Bill (on death penalty for rape convicts) and it has still not been made a law. Why? Because the BJP has blocked it. We don't want to do politics. If you are serious, support the bill. A woman's body is not a battleground for your politics. It has to be respected."
The Hindu
3 hours ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
The Hindu Morning digest: June 28, 2025
Trump hopeful for Gaza ceasefire, possibly 'next week' U.S. President Donald Trump voiced optimism on Friday (June 27, 2025) about a new ceasefire in Gaza, saying an agreement involving Israel and Hamas could come as early as next week. Asked by reporters how close a ceasefire was in Gaza, Mr. Trump said, 'We think within the next week, we're going to get a ceasefire.' Earlier, the U.S. announced it would begin funding the initiative with $30 million approved. 'We're supplying, as you know, a lot of money and a lot of food to that area. We're involved because people are dying. And look at those crowds of people that have no food, no anything,' Mr. Trump said Friday (June 27, 2025). Protests erupt across Kolkata over gang rape of law student; Opposition flays Mamata government Protests erupted across Kolkata on Friday (June 27, 2025) after one of the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a student at the South Calcutta Law College campus, Monojit Mishra, was identified as a Trinamool Congress student leader. Left-backed student groups laid siege to the Kasba Police Station where the case was registered. Opposition parties have also slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, alleging a nexus between ruling party leaders and criminal elements. In response, the Trinamool leaders have gone into damage-control mode. The two other accused in the case, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay, are students at the same college. Mr. Mishra, 31, had passed had out from the same institute. All three have been arrested and are now in a four-day police custody. Adani indictment case: U.S. SEC updates court on efforts to serve legal documents The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a status update with a federal court in New York, detailing its ongoing efforts to serve legal documents to billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar in connection with a civil securities case filed last year. In a June 27 letter submitted to Magistrate Judge James R. Cho of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), the SEC said it is continuing to pursue formal service of the summons and complaint under the provisions of the Hague Service Convention. U.S. SEC has to serve the summons to Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar in the alleged $265 million payoffs to win lucrative renewable power supply contracts through proper diplomatic channels, as it has no jurisdiction to summon a foreign national directly. India trying for U.S. trade deal by July 8 deadline A team of negotiators from India is in the U.S. for at least a two-day trip to conduct final negotiations for a 'mini trade deal' before the July 8, 2025 deadline elapses, The Hindu has learnt. The top items on the agenda, and the main hindrances to an agreement, are the entry of genetically modified crops and cow milk into India and the removal of the reciprocal tariffs imposed by the U.S. This comes soon after U.S. President Donald Trump on June 26 hinted at a 'very big' deal coming up with India. July 8, 2025, marks the last day of the 90-day pause Mr. Trump had allowed on the 'Liberation Day' higher tariffs he had imposed on imports from other countries, including India. India 'categorically rejects' Court of Arbitration's 'supplemental award' on Kishenganga, Ratle hydropower projects India on Friday (June 27, 2025) 'categorically rejected' the 'supplemental award' by the Court of Arbitration on Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects, saying that it 'never recognised' the Court of Arbitration, which is a 'serious breach' of the Indus Waters Treaty which has been put 'at abeyance' after the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam. 'India has never recognised the existence in law of this so-called Court of Arbitration, and India's position has all along been that the constitution of this so-called arbitral body is in itself a serious breach of the Indus Waters Treaty and consequently any proceedings before this forum and any award or decision taken by it are also for that reason illegal and per se void,' said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) after the World Bank's Court of Arbitration gave a 'supplemental award' on Kishenganga and Ratle projects in Jammu and Kashmir. Opposition slams RSS leader Hosabale after his comment on 'secularism', 'socialism' Opposition parties sharply criticised Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's comment that the words 'secular' and 'socialist' in the Preamble of the Constitution should be reviewed, with the Congress on Friday (June 27, 2025) alleging that the RSS 'never accepted' Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitution. In a Facebook post, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi claimed that the 'mask' of the RSS has come off again. 'The Constitution hurts them because it talks about equality, secularism and justice. The RSS-BJP does not want the Constitution but Manusmriti. By snatching their rights, they (BJP-RSS) want to make the poor and the Bahujans slaves again. Their real agenda is to snatch away a powerful weapon like the Constitution from them,' Mr. Gandhi said, adding his party 'wont let that happen'. MPs across party lines in parliamentary panel support forward-looking policy for Bangladesh At a special interaction between four leading experts and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, MPs cutting across party lines displayed a desire to 'move ahead' with India's relation with Bangladesh, it has been learnt. The Hindu had earlier reported that the interaction between the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor-led parliamentary committee and four experts was scheduled for Friday (June 27, 2025) afternoon, where the MPs were expected to be briefed on the latest developments in Dhaka and what India can do to recover the lost ground. 'All Members of Parliament displayed pathos and understanding of the issues between India and Bangladesh and there was a real desire among the MPs to mend the bilateral ties and take things forward,' said a source on condition of anonymity. First batch of pilgrims visit Mansarovar, appeal for more yatra slots to be opened As the first batch of Indian pilgrims since 2020 visited the Mansarovar Lake, preparing to begin their return journey on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, they expressed the hope that India and China could agree to allow more yatris to make the trek in future years. This first batch of pilgrims left Delhi on June 15 and arrived this week at Darchen to begin the Parikrama or circular route around Mount Kailash. They will head back on Saturday (June 28, 2025), and cross over into India on July 1, completing a route by road of about 2,000 km, trekking an uphill and rugged terrain of about 52 km on foot. As they touched the pristine blue waters of Mansarovar Lake, the world's highest freshwater lake at 4,588 metres, they burst into meditational chants. U.S. Supreme Court curbs power of individual judges to block Donald Trump The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory on Friday (June 27, 2025) by curbing the power of lone federal judges to block executive actions. In a 6-3 ruling stemming from Mr. Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, the court said nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges 'likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts'. The top court did not immediately rule on the constitutionality of Mr. Trump's executive order seeking to end automatic citizenship for children born on American soil. But the broader decision on the scope of judicial rulings will remove a big roadblock to Mr. Trump's often highly controversial orders and reaffirm the White House's power. Court rejects Netanyahu's call to postpone graft trial hearings An Israeli court on Friday (June 27, 2025) rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to postpone giving testimony in his corruption trial, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the case should be cancelled. The Jerusalem district court said in a judgement published online that 'in its current form, (his request) does not provide a basis or detailed justification for the cancellation of the hearings'. Mr. Netanyahu's lawyer, Amit Hadad, promptly submitted a fresh request for the next two weeks' hearings to be scrapped, in a filing seen by AFP. Saved Khamenei from ugly death, says Trump; warns further attacks by U.S. or Israel U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (June 27, 2025) scoffed at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's heated warning to the U.S. not to launch future strikes on Iran, as well as the Iranian supreme leader's assertion that Tehran 'won the war' with Israel. Mr. Trump, in remarks to reporters and later in an extended statement on social media, said Khamenei's comments defied reality after 12 days of Israeli strikes and the U.S. bombardment of three key nuclear sites inflicted severe damage on the country's nuclear programme. The U.S. President spoke out a day after Mr. Khamenei insisted Tehran had delivered a 'slap to America's face' by striking a U.S. air base in Qatar and warned against further attacks by the U.S. or Israel on Iran. 'I saved him from a very ugly and ignominious death, and he does not have to say, 'Thank you, President Trump!' ' wrote Mr. Trump. Praggnanandhaa wins UzChess Cup Masters, becomes top-ranked Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa became India's top-ranked chess player in the live ratings after winning the UzChess Cup Masters 2025, in Tashkent on Friday (June 27, 2025). The win took Praggnanandhaa's live rating to 2778.3, making him World No. 4 — up three places — as he achieved his highest career ranking. The 19-year-old leapfrogged world champion D. Gukesh (2776.6) and Arjun Erigaisi (2775.7), who was India's top-ranked player until Thursday (June 26, 2025) but has now slipped to World No. 6.
The Hindu
9 hours ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Digha Rath Yatra kicks off with political war over chariots between TMC and BJP
The Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday organised separate Rath Yatra celebrations in West Bengal, engaging in a competition of sorts. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the first 'Rath Yatra' from the newly constructed ₹250-crore Jagannath Temple in the coastal town of Digha. Thousands of devotees participated in the event. 'It was a profoundly emotional, soul-stirring, and awe-inspiring experience to be part of the Rath Yatra celebrations at the newly consecrated Jagannath Dham in Digha. The sound of conch shells, the fragrance of incense wafting through the air, and the chants of 'Joy Jagannath' created an atmosphere of divine grace and spiritual unity,' Ms. Banerjee posted on social media. The Chief Minister, during the Rath Yatra, appealed through a public address system to allow devotees touch the ropes of all three chariots from inside the barricades along the 750-metre procession route from the main temple. Not only devotees from the State, but those from different countries staying at 40-odd ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) centres participated and danced for hours in front of the chariots to the devotional chants of 'Hare Ram, Hare Krishna. Controversy In the prelude to the festival, the West Bengal government distributed prasad (offering) across the State, allegedly spending ₹42 crore. The construction of Jagannath Temple in Digha, which mirrors the 12th century Puri's Jagannath temple, has triggered controversy with the BJP government in Odisha urging West Bengal government not to use 'Jagannath Dham' while referring to the Digha temple. The BJP leadership in West Bengal, which opposed the construction of the temple, also participated in the Rath Yatra. Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari participated in the Rath Yatra at three places. 'I feel fortunate to have participated in the Rath Yatra festivities of Mahaprabhu Jagannath Dev across three sacred venues today. Joined the All India Kirtan Baul and Devotional Songs Welfare Trust's grand event at Central Avenue, Kolkata, thereafter offered prayers at Sri Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu Mandir in Tamluk, Purba Medinipur, and sought blessings at Sri Sri Shankhananda Jagannath Mandir, ISKCON Mecheda in Purba Medinipur,' Mr. Adhikari said. The BJP leader also said that he distributed 'maha prasad' from the sacred pilgrimage of Puri Jagannath Dham to the devotees.
