The Bengal Police must ensure transparent, impartial probe: Malviya
The Statesman | 12 October 2025
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had claimed on Saturday that the West Bengal Police should not mishandle the investigation of the gang-rape of a second-year medical student from Odisha outside the private medical college at Durgapur in West Burdwan district, as done by Kolkata Police in the case of the RG Kar rape and murder case in August last year.
BJP’s information technology cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, released two social media posts, lambasting the West Bengal government on the issue.
“This repeated failure of law and order exposes a disturbing pattern under Mamata Banerjee’s administration. The West Bengal Police must ensure a transparent and impartial investigation, unlike the RG Kar rape and murder case, which the Kolkata Police mishandled under instructions so that the guilty face the harshest punishment under the law,” the BJP leader said in an X post.
Former state BJP president and Union minister of state for education, Sukanta Majumdar, claimed on Saturday that the Durgapur mishap proves that women are unsafe everywhere in West Bengal.