‘How was she out at 12:30 am...?’ Mamata Banerjee's BIG statement after Bengal gang rape case

Mamata Banerjee on West Bengal gang rape case: After the horrific gang rape case in West Bengal, Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee made a bold statement. In her shocking statement in connection with the gang rape case, Mamata asked the private colleges in the state to not allow women to go out in the late hours.

She was speaking in the connection with the recent medical student's gang rape in West Bengal's Durgapur. She even asked how the survivor of the medial college gang rape case “was outside the campus at 12:30 am.” Reportedly, it is the same time the incident is said to have taken place.

Meanwhile, as per the statements of the girl's parents, the incident took place before 10 pm on Friday. However, Mamata, addressing a media briefing asked how she came out of the private college after midnight.

It is worthy to be mentioned here that a medical student from Odisha's Jaleswar was allegedly raped by some men outside the campus of the private medical college in Durgapur. Reportedly, the incident took place on Friday when the medical student was out for dinner with her friends, police said.

What Mamata Banerjee said?

In her statement, Mamata said, “She was studying in a private medical college... all the private medical are whose responsibility? how they came out in the night at 12:30?... it happened, so far I know, in the forest area... investigation is on.”

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She further added that she is shocked to see the incident, private medical colleges need to take care of their students, “especially the girl child” who should “not be allowed to come out” at night time.

Victim's parents statement 

Meanwhile, a report of HT quoted the victim's parents as saying, “We received a call from her classmates around 9.30 pm. Her classmates informed us that she was raped and that we should immediately come to Durgapur. We reached the campus on Saturday morning. She is not well and is admitted in the hospital. The miscreants demanded money to return her mobile.”

"My daughter also started running but couldn’t trace her friend. When the three men found my daughter alone, they took her to a nearby forest area. Two more people joined them. One of them committed the crime and snatched her mobile. She was threatened that she would be killed if she dared to shout,” the report further stated her mother as saying.