Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday asked the authorities to wake up and said that the rising instances of crimes against women had “sullied” the image of West Bengal and “people are laughing at us”.
The veteran Marxist placed a question mark on the efficiency of the state government and the CM of state Mamata Banerjee over the aftermath of the gang-rape of a tribal woman in Birbhum district allegedly at the behest of a kangaroo court.
Somnath Chatterjee said, “I don’t know which way we are heading, series of incidents are happening, culprits seem either not being apprehended or are not being punished. The good name of West Bengal has been completely sullied, people are laughing at us, they do not think this is a civilised place. It’s high time the authorities wake up.”
He also said that the “barbaric” Birbhum incident has made the people of the state “concerned, worried and ashamed”.
He also said while demanding an exemplary punishment for the culprits not only in the instant case but also in all similar cases which have occurred in the recent past.
Bureau Report
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