medical student rape in west bengal
A medical student from Odisha was allegedly raped by unknown persons in West Bengal’s West Burdwan district, police said on Saturday. The student’s family members said the incident took place outside the campus of a private medical college in Durgapur on Friday night. They said the second-year student had gone out for dinner with a friend. There have been cases of rape of female students in West Bengal in the past. The rape and murder of a junior female doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College shocked the country. After this, a case of rape of a law college student also came to light.
Now, another rape case has come to light in West Bengal. A police officer said that the medical student, a resident of Jaleswar, Odisha, is undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital. He added, “We are investigating based on the complaint of the student’s family. The student’s parents said that they reached Durgapur this morning after receiving a call from their daughter’s friends. The student’s mother alleged that her daughter was gang-raped when she went out of the college campus for dinner with a friend at around 10 pm on Friday night. The student’s father said, “We received a call from her friends and came to know about the incident. We came here this morning and lodged a police complaint. I had heard that the college offers good education, so we sent our daughter here for medical studies.
How did the incident happen?
According to police, the rape-victim’s friend left her alone when three unidentified men at an area near the campus. They allegedly snatched her phone and took her to a jungle outside the medical college’s campus, where they raped the Odisha girl, said officials.
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