Rape Fest

The recent incident of gang rape at the behest of headman of tribal community at Kangaroo court in Birbhum district that can even make pale any medieval barbarity is the fall-out of the persistent lenient attitude of the present state govt to crimes against women and rapes or gang rape in particular. When an incident of rape takes place govt try hard to shove the incident under the carpet so that it doesn’t in way tarnish the image of the govt.It all started with Park street gang rape case, the first incident of rape in the regime of the present govt.Instead of taking stern action against this gruesome incident CM called it a concocted one to blemish the govt, and transferred the investigating officer Damayanti Sen when she claimed gang rape did actually happen. In fact, it sent a signal to the rapists that govt play down even gruesome incident like rapes and they can perpetrate this heinous crime with impunity. There after umpteen incidents of rape including rape-murder and gang rapes have happened in the state and none has been punished as yet. What’s more, CM a woman herself has unusually kept mum about rapes, let alone take hard measures against the rapists to minimize such awful crimes. Thanks to the present rulers, Bengal has got the most despicable distinction of being the rape capital of the nation and our head hangs in shame to the civilized societies of the globe.

A criminals' welfare state!

It’s the utter disgrace for any state administration where a young girl is gang raped and raped again for bringing the most barbaric incident to the notice of the cops. Here the matter does not end. So nonchalant are the miscreants to the power of the custodian of law and order,they kept hunting the girl and ultimately burnt her to death by sprinkling kerosene on her body.Isn’t it more nightmarish than any horror story? Now our state has been a heaven for molesters and rapists. The criminals are awfully desperate and they’ve scanty regard for the police administration. So they dare outrage the modesty of women in broad day light in presence of people around. They behave as if the state has given them the license to sexually misbehave with any woman they like for pleasure and amusement. What’s more, whoever ventures to protest against these criminal activities is roughed up mercilessly. So people now prefer to look the other way when such things happen. Never before women did feel as unsafe and unsecured as now in our state. The situation is fast deteriorating thanks to the insensitivity and indifference of the state administration. What’s very important, police administration more often than not brazenly take sides with the miscreants instead of protecting the victims. What’s very surprising is Mamata Banerjee being a woman herself very carefully refrains from making any statements while blood chilling incidents of rape-murder are taking place one after other in our state. She considers these barbaric incidents as ‘small ones' and there's nothing to clamour about. Nor has she made significant attempt to prevent or minimize such incidents. On the other hand she blames the opposition for making furor unnecessarily over these incidents to tarnish the image of the government and stand in the way of the developmental activities being pursued by her govt just out of malice. What’s most deplorable, people of Bengal who are supposed to be very sensitive and responsive lie far behind the Delihites in vehemence of their protest against the gang-rape of Nirvaya in a running bus that shook the Delhi administration to the core. People from all walks of life participated in the protest rally that gripped Delhi in such a way that Delhi govt too came forward and helped amend the anti-rape law to make it more stringent and brought the miscreants to justice by trial in the fast track court. The perpetrators of barbarism were awarded death penalty. In contrast, in Bengal no sustained movement is organized against the govt which is apparently in deep slumber so far as the crime against women is concerned and awaken it to act properly to stop this menace which affect our every day life and tarnish the image of Bengal at national and international levels, which was once deemed one of the safest places for women in the country.