Almost a year after the shocking RG Kar rape case, in which a doctor and doctoral student was brutally attacked and killed, Kolkata rocked; The rape of the Kasba Law College has exposed the deep roots of the prevailing rape culture in our society. Academic locations that were once regarded as safe spaces now seem to become risky zones for female students. This time, both the survivor and the perpetrator were connected to the wing of the students of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), and the crime occurred within a state law and unveiled the entire system so deeply in the rape culture.
A student claimed she was Gangs condemned on June 25th On the campus of the South Calcutta Law College in Kasba by a college employee and an alumnus with alleged connections to the TMC leadership, while two fellow students filmed the attack to blackmail them. Despite the threats, the survivor reported the crime of the police, which led to the arrest of all three defendants. A fourth arrest of the guardian, who supposedly “had released around, had not triggered a alarm, did not help the victim and closed the goal”. The survivor also claimed that she was hit by a hockey stick and threatened by the perpetrators that she would kill her parents and friends if she were opposed.
A well -known predator was activated, not booked
The survivor revealed that the perpetrator proposed the marriage before the attack, a tactic that reflected a disturbing reality Indian culture not to respect the consent of womenEspecially if you have rejected a proposal. Later investigations showed that the accused was a well -known perpetrator; College girl considered his marriage proposals as alarming signals. Nevertheless, he remained in favor of the President of the Colleg, a TMC -MLA, with political patronage.
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According to the opposition parties, this has become regular and indicates a disturbing trend: the appointment of infamous alumni as contractual employees of the universities in order to ensure the admission syndicates and an environment of political control and fear. A similar suspicion of a syndicate arose in the RG Kar case, where obvious efforts to suppress truth pointed out a broader culture of impunity.
Occasional recruits as political farmers
The accused in the RG Kar -was a “civil police officer”, an occasional recruit. This time, too, the perpetrator is a contractual employee, an occasional recruit. Such appointments do not need police review and are often secured as a reward for loyalty to the government party. The ruling party has tried to part with the perpetrator of the Law College from the incident, since the incident attracted attention to the public.
Such a policy raises critical questions: Has the contractual employment become an instrument for the governing party to accommodate hooligans for their own agenda and maintain a cycle of violence?
But social media photos show his close relationships with executives such as Abhishek Banerjee, the second-in command. Such a policy raises critical questions: Has the contractual employment become an instrument for the governing party to accommodate hooligans for their own agenda and maintain a cycle of violence?
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The survivor is properly estimated that they violate silence about rape and harassment, although they are threatened by the perpetrators that they would circulate the video material of rape over the Internet. Your family has explained that you have full confidence in the police and have disappeared from the reach of the media and activists. Some speculate that the family’s TMC connections enable the fast police measures and underlined how political connections can decide on the extent of justice, which can also be a double-edged sword in the event of rape in Kolkata.
Dysfunctional ICCs: a failure of the supervision
The Return the night movementWhat appeared after the incident with RG Kar has repeatedly called for the transparent selection of members of the internal complaint committee, which was founded in accordance with the Visakha guidelines and the POSH Act. The movement claimed that ICCs are formed in West Bengal to maintain the protocol and are actually dysfunctional. If the ICC had been functional, the perpetrator would previously be punished properly as a student and concluded from the further appointment on campus, they argue.
One of the most critical demands that the feminist movement said was that the government should carry out a gender -specific exam as soon as possible to determine whether ICCs are ready for operation throughout the state. During the movement it became known that the guidelines of Vishakha, who guarantee the security of working women and students against sexual violence, are hardly implemented. Forget local complaint committees; Even internal complaint committees are either not available or dysfunctional.
TMC’s culture of the victim that is written
In the first years of his regime, when Suzzette Jordan was raped in the Park Street, the CM was cited and accused them of “fabricating stories”. Later, when a minor was raped and killed in Hanskhali, the state Supremo himself said: “You (the victim and the perpetrator) had an affair.” Does this justify rape and murder? While the victim was stopped in the incident with RG Kar by the “Reclaim the Night” movement over time, the trend of Kasba Law College will reappear. The cm has remained silent, but Madan Mitra, the MLA, apparently blamed the girl to be on her campus in the early morning. However, the party introduced him and anticipated public counter reactions.
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After Monojit Mishra was accused as Prime, which was accused in the rape case in Kasba, another TMC leader, Halder’s kingopened up that he was once spread with AI-generated half-naked pictures of her that was driven by a envy of her ascent in the party. She also claimed that people like Monojit still stay in the party.
The women of Bengal look like a troubling dilemma, with the BJP trivialized with the RSS ideology and the trivialization of crimes against Asifa and Bilkis Bano – as the only sustainable opposition to TMC, the ruling party with women in an environment of rape culture.
It was not only dismissed by her college members, including women, but also referred to as the “opportunist” for the spotlight because he had not complained immediately after the incident. However, it can be seen that the time gap between the incident and the accusation still has weight after years since the #metoo movement began. We believed that the #metoo movement had firmly established that the victims had the right to comment when they feel ready. Later, another former TMC city councilor A TMCP student manager to threaten and harass them after she had rejected his marriage proposal. In contrast to Rajanya, she noticed that she complained about “Zeit” and saw no action.
Although the party reacted little to whether it promotes a culture in which such abuse is normalized, this emerging trend of women within the party, which speaks against their male colleagues, is a remarkable shift. Apparently TMC portrays itself as a women -friendly party and offers money allowances for women and a considerable number of female MLAS and MPs. However, the narrative of the victims, which prompted themselves to defend themselves in rape or harassment incidents, shows that the party remains as patriarchal despite a female leader as other Indian election parties, if not more.
The women of Bengal look like a troubling dilemma, with the BJP trivialized with the RSS ideology and the trivialization of crimes against Asifa and Bilkis Bano – as the only sustainable opposition to TMC, the ruling party with women in an environment of rape culture. The CPIM, which ruled for 34 years, now has little influence. In addition, the political parties consider a movement against rape as an instrument to overthrow the governments by exploiting rape incidents and at the same time refusing, justifying or ignoring rape or abuse during their term or by their members.
Satabdi This is an activist, author, teacher. She is an editor of Khader Dhare Ghor (a house by the canyon: a book about domestic violence), has written Naribadi Chithi O onyanyo (feminist letters and others) and O-Nandonik Golpo-Sonkolon (The Unaethetic Stories). Your areas of work are domestic violence, sexual violence and inequalities in the school curricullum. She can be found on Facebook and Twitter.
