Kolkata: On Tuesday, National Commission of Women Chief Rekha Sharma slammed Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks made on the Nadia gang rape case. She said that Mamata being a Woman should understand the pain of the victim.
She was quoted by news agency ANI as saying, “Being a woman, she should understand the pain of another woman. She pointed fingers at the victim, it was wrong.”
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is under fire for claiming a 14-year-old girl was enjoying a love affair, despite being under fire for the murder of the girl allegedly as a result of gangrape. Banerjee struck back at critics on Monday, querying why the body was burned before a postmortem and the complaint was submitted five days later. Despite this, she stated that the police had taken action in the case and made an arrest “regardless of (political) color,” adding that something like this “doesn’t happen in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, or Delhi.”
The minor girl’s relatives claimed she was gangraped after she died shortly after attending a birthday celebration in south Bengal’s Nadia district. A man in his 20s, the son of a local Trinamool official, has been arrested as the primary culprit in the case.
Making a infuriatingly misogynistic comment Banerjee claimed that family and neighborhood knew there was also a love affair and for an add on she also questioned the victims character asking “If a boy and girl are in love, it is not my job to stop it. This is not UP, that we will go on about love jihad. It is a freedom (to fall in love)”. The state, she said, will ensure that if there is a crime, action will be taken. In the current case, action has been taken, she said.
“You tell me, if someone dies on the 5th and there are queries and complaints about it — why not file a complaint on the 5th itself? You went ahead and cremated the body? I’m speaking here as a layman, without knowing all of it. How will they (the police) get any evidence? If there was a rape, or pregnancy or any other reason…” the Chief Minister said at function.
“The police are yet to understand the cause of the death. I had asked them. Will you call it rape or was she pregnant? Was it (the fallout of) a love affair? Have you enquired about these? This is an unfortunate incident,” Banerjee added.
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