Bengal gang rape: Police seek custody of accused

Bengal gang rape: Police seek custody of accused

The 13 accused in the shocking gang rape case of a tribal woman on the orders of a kangaroo court in West Bengal’s Birbhum district were Friday presented in court with the police seeking their custody. “All 13 accused have been presented before the court … we have sought their custody,” a police officer said. […]

Bengal gang rape: 13 remanded to judicial custody

Bengal gang rape: 13 remanded to judicial custody

A West Bengal court Thursday remanded 13 people to 14 days’ judicial custody in connection with the gang rape of a tribal woman in the state’s Birbhum district, police said. “All the 13 accused arrested in this connection were presented before a court which has remanded them to 14 days’ judicial custody,” a Labhpur police […]

BJP wants NHRC to probe Bengal gang rape

BJP wants NHRC to probe Bengal gang rape

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit Sunday approached the National Human Rights Commission seeking a probe into the alleged gang rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Madhyamgram town in North 24-Parganas district. In a letter to the commission, the BJP accused the Mamata Banerjee-led state government of “living in denial”, and urged […]