Mamata Banerjee says, ‘Hang the victim’
In a sharp response to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she highlighted incidents of rape across India, the Centre has now flagged that Bengal has been allocated 123 fast-track courts to hear cases of rapes and child abuse, but many of them are not functional yet.
Under fire after a 31-year-old doctor was raped and murdered in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Ms Banerjee shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, demanding a tough central law to punish rapists. The Trinamool supremo highlighted in her letter that, according to available data, 90 rape cases occur in the country daily. And in many cases, the victims are murdered.
