Mamata Banerjee On Rape

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government received a stern reprimand from the state's High Court Thursday as it heard affidavits regarding the violence and allegations of extortion and sexual assault from Sandeshkhali before the election.

BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia slammed the West Bengal government on Wednesday over allegations of sexual harassment by women in Sandeshkhali block and said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a silent spectator.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- under pressure over the death of a minor girl allegedly after gangrape -- hit back at critics, questioning why the body was cremated before a postmortem and the complaint filed five days later.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said women face harrowing experiences every day, with not much being done by the Centre to change the situation for better.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading a protest march against what has come to be known as the Hathras horror - the alleged rape and fatal assault of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, and her 2:30AM cremation by Uttar Pradesh Police without the family's consent or presence leading to nationwide outrage.

Have no word to condemn the barbaric and shameful incident, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday after a young girl was gang-raped in Hathras and who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today pulled up the ruling BJP for its alleged reluctance in taking action against Kuldeep Sengar, an Uttar Pradesh lawmaker accused in the Unnao sexual assault case, despite the police naming him as an accused in a road accident that ended up hospitalising the rape survivor and killing two others on Sunday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded a high-level inquiry into a road accident in Uttar Pradesh that left the survivor in the Unnao rape case critically injured and killed two of her relatives yesterday. She also expressed concern over the murder of a retired army captain by unidentified men in the northern state's Amethi distric...

In a chilling throwback to the horrific Nirbhaya case, a mentally challenged tribal woman has been brutally gang-raped in north Bengal. The 30-year-old was brutalized with iron rods, her intestines spilled out and she was left to die in a forested area at Kusumondi in South Dinajpur district, police and hospital sources said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today took to the Twitter to remember Nirbhaya on the third anniversary of the Delhi 16 gang-rape.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening travelled to Ranaghat and met an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend.

"Courage is rare... so rare that you doubt every ounce of it that you find," said activist Harish Iyer of his friend Suzette Jordan, who died on Monday of meningoencephalitis.

A rape survivor who took on the West Bengal government and police in her fight for justice in what came to be known as the "Park Street Rape Case" has died. Suzette Jordan, 40, died of meningoencephalitis at a hospital in Kolkata on Friday.

A police case or FIR must be filed straightaway against parliamentarian Tapas Pal of Bengal's Trinamool Congress for threatening to have women relatives of Left workers raped, the Calcutta High Court said today. It also ruled that the Criminal Investigations Department of the state police must investigate the remarks and provide an update in court...

With the media continuing to highlight the nationwide outrage over Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Tapas Pal's rape threat, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused her detractors of carrying out a campaign of "canards and misinformation".

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government received a stern reprimand from the state's High Court Thursday as it heard affidavits regarding the violence and allegations of extortion and sexual assault from Sandeshkhali before the election.

BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia slammed the West Bengal government on Wednesday over allegations of sexual harassment by women in Sandeshkhali block and said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a silent spectator.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- under pressure over the death of a minor girl allegedly after gangrape -- hit back at critics, questioning why the body was cremated before a postmortem and the complaint filed five days later.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said women face harrowing experiences every day, with not much being done by the Centre to change the situation for better.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading a protest march against what has come to be known as the Hathras horror - the alleged rape and fatal assault of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, and her 2:30AM cremation by Uttar Pradesh Police without the family's consent or presence leading to nationwide outrage.

Have no word to condemn the barbaric and shameful incident, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday after a young girl was gang-raped in Hathras and who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today pulled up the ruling BJP for its alleged reluctance in taking action against Kuldeep Sengar, an Uttar Pradesh lawmaker accused in the Unnao sexual assault case, despite the police naming him as an accused in a road accident that ended up hospitalising the rape survivor and killing two others on Sunday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded a high-level inquiry into a road accident in Uttar Pradesh that left the survivor in the Unnao rape case critically injured and killed two of her relatives yesterday. She also expressed concern over the murder of a retired army captain by unidentified men in the northern state's Amethi distric...

In a chilling throwback to the horrific Nirbhaya case, a mentally challenged tribal woman has been brutally gang-raped in north Bengal. The 30-year-old was brutalized with iron rods, her intestines spilled out and she was left to die in a forested area at Kusumondi in South Dinajpur district, police and hospital sources said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today took to the Twitter to remember Nirbhaya on the third anniversary of the Delhi 16 gang-rape.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening travelled to Ranaghat and met an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend.

"Courage is rare... so rare that you doubt every ounce of it that you find," said activist Harish Iyer of his friend Suzette Jordan, who died on Monday of meningoencephalitis.

A rape survivor who took on the West Bengal government and police in her fight for justice in what came to be known as the "Park Street Rape Case" has died. Suzette Jordan, 40, died of meningoencephalitis at a hospital in Kolkata on Friday.

A police case or FIR must be filed straightaway against parliamentarian Tapas Pal of Bengal's Trinamool Congress for threatening to have women relatives of Left workers raped, the Calcutta High Court said today. It also ruled that the Criminal Investigations Department of the state police must investigate the remarks and provide an update in court...

With the media continuing to highlight the nationwide outrage over Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Tapas Pal's rape threat, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused her detractors of carrying out a campaign of "canards and misinformation".