In the Park Street rape case of Kolkata, the bail plea of one of the accused - Sumit Bajaj - will come up for hearing in a court on Wedneday. A 37-year-old woman, who is a mother of two, was allegedly raped at gunpoint in a moving car on February 5, 2012. The woman claimed that she was offered a lift by four men, whom she befriended at a nightclub...
09:15 AM, Jan 02, 2013
The victim of the Park Street rape case said that the statement of Kakoli Ghosh was shameful. ...
09:35 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The lack of gender sensitivity and appalling comments has transcended political lines. In another shocking remark, Trinamool Congress leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has called the Park Street rape case of February 5, 2012, a misunderstanding between a lady and her client. "If you're refering to the Park Street rape, see that is a different case altogether that was not at all a rape case. It was a misunderstanding between the...
03:14 PM, Dec 28, 2012
A 40-year-old differently-abled woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 28-year-old man in Kolkata inside a stationary bus at a depot, which is close to a police station. The locals handed over the accused to two policemen, but the accused gave them the slip and fled from the spot. ...
08:24 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Kolkata: In a shocking case of sexual abuse in Kolkata, an 18-month-old baby was on Tuesday night sexually abused in the heart of the West Bengal capital. The baby was sleeping next to her mother on a footpath when she was whisked away for some time and sexually abused. She was found later on Wednesday morning bleeding heavily with severe injury marks. The mother of the victim has lodged a...
07:22 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Kolkata: The alleged victim of Sunday's gangrape near Chetla bridge in the metropolis on Tuesday changed her statement after discrepancies were detected in it. "There were several discrepancies in her statement, which we informed her about. She then told the police that she wanted to change her earlier statement," Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) P K Ghosh told reporters. The police found that the victim, a domestic help, was present at...
08:31 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Singer and Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman may have sparked off fresh controversy within his party with a song he penned in support of IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who was recently demoted after she cracked the high profile Park Street rape case, and a severely critical commentary on party leader Mamata Banerjee on his website. Suman posted the audio clip of the song 'Damayanti Sen chollen' on his...
12:21 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Kolkata: Questions are still being asked about the police officer's transfer by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The big question is whether there is more to the transfer of top woman police officer Damayanti Sen than mere reshuffling. It's the biggest police shake-up since Mamata Banerjee came to power. Sixty IPS officers have been transferred across lines but one name has baffled all, Damayanti Sen, the first woman top...
11:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Kolkata: Faced with criticism over transfer of senior IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who had differed with Mamata Banerjee on the genuineness of the Park Street rape case, the West Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday defended the decision saying it was a prerogative of the government. Banerjee, without referring to the transfer of Sen, the former Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said, "It is the prerogative of my government to get...
09:16 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who ruffled a few feathers including that of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the infamous Park Street rape case in February, was shunted out from the city on Wednesday. In what is being seen as a low-profile posting, she was transferred as DIG, Training, of Barrackpore Police Training School. Sen, as Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, had reportedly "defied" Mamata Banerjee by...
05:10 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Kolkata: The police custody of the three men charged in the Park Street rape case ends on Saturday. The three are accused of raping a 37-year-old woman in a moving car on February 5. In the immediate aftermath of the rape, the police had claimed that the accused had alibis. However, further investigations and two arrests later, the police confirmed rape and added that the accused had impersonated other people...
07:15 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Kolkata: Amid severe criticism from all sections of society for calling the Park Street rape "a cooked-up case", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blamed a section of media for distorting her statement and said her initial response was based on the preliminary investigation report. "A particular channel has distorted my version. I have never said that nothing has happened. As per the preliminary investigation, it was revealed...
05:39 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: On the night of February 5, a woman was raped at gunpoint in a moving car by its occupants after accepting a lift from them late at night while returning from a Kolkata nightclub. When she went to lodge a complaint at the police station, the cops, she said, humiliated her. While a state cabinet minister questioned the need of a mother of two children, estranged from her...
08:11 PM, Feb 23, 2012
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11:42 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kolkata: A Bengali actress and fiancee of Kader Khan, the prime accused in the alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman in Kolkata earlier this month, said on Tuesday she would help police in bringing the guilty to justice. "I don't know if rape was committed but if it has been, then whoever has done it deserves to be punished. I want to help police and if they want I can...
07:18 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kolkata: The Joint Commissioner of Police has submitted his report on the alleged misconduct of the Park Street Police personnel with the victim of alleged rape to the police commissioner. Sources say the probe report into the alleged rape recommends suspension and a departmental inquiry against police officers. Sources also say that the report suggests that the allegation of the policemen mocking the victim could be prima facie true. The...
11:27 AM, Feb 21, 2012
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11:48 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bnaerjee is meeting top police officials in Kolkata to discuss Park Street rape case. Mamata had earlier claimed that the incident was a "fabricated story" intended to malign her government. Mamata came under severe criticism for her comments from all political circles. Mamata is meeting the Joint Police Commissioner Damayanti Sen. This comes just days after she herself called the victim's complaints as...
12:51 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, does Indian society subject a rape victim to a morality test?
12:46 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Kolkata: The 37-year-old mother of two who was allegedly raped in a moving car earlier this month in Kolkata is determined to get justice. Speaking to CNN-IBN, she said that caustic remarks won't stop her in her fight for justice. "I really didn't care about what anybody told me or said about me. I just believed in myself... And I knew what I had gone through. And I didn't want...
07:25 AM, Feb 20, 2012
