Chargesheet submitted in gang-rape of medical faculty scholar in West Bengals Durgapur

The West Bengal Police on Thursday (October 31, 2025) filed a chargesheet in reference to the gang-rape of a medical scholar in opposition to six individuals together with the classmate of the survivor.

Charges have been pressed in opposition to the six accused for rape, gangrape, extortion, dacoity amongst different sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The chargesheet submitted by Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate comes 20 days after the horrific crime.

The sexual assault survivor is an MBBS scholar at a personal medical faculty. at Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district. The scholar had reportedly gone out of the faculty with a male buddy on the night time of October 10. She was allegedly gang-raped by unidentified males in a forest space close to the faculty campus.

While the police had initially arrested 5 accused — all locals in reference to the crime — on October 14, the survivor’s 23-year-old classmate, a resident of Kaliachak in Bengal’s Malda district, was arrested later. Before the submission of the chargesheet, a take a look at identification parade was held at a correctional residence the place the accused are lodged.

“The chargesheet was fashioned after conducting a fast investigation. This is the success of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate. We are hopeful that the trial shall be accomplished inside two months and the trial course of will start,” Special Public Prosecutor Bibhas Chatterjee advised the media on Thursday.

The sexual assault, which got here in lower than a 12 months after the rape and homicide of a physician at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, has as soon as once more raised questions on security and safety of ladies in West Bengal.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks that girls shouldn’t be allowed to come back outdoors within the night time time had evoked sharp criticism from her political opponents and other people at giant.

“Especially lady youngsters at night time time…they shouldn’t be allowed to come back outdoors. They have to guard themselves additionally…” Ms. Banerjee had mentioned on October 12. She had additionally urged non-public medical schools to take duty for his or her college students, because the police couldn’t maintain a watch on each home.