The public sentiment is overwhelmingly negative, characterized by outrage and frustration over the brutal gang-rape incident and perceived failures of law enforcement and the West Bengal government, particularly under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Many commenters criticize the judicial system, express concerns about victim-blaming narratives, and call for urgent reforms to enhance women's safety and accountability from political leaders.

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Come on, how is it their fault? When the victim went out late at night.

ashrayRog

Bengal Police tried so hard not to release their names, as if we wouldn’t know who they’re trying to protect. Anyway, I don’t think any justice will be served, since they’re all Mamta ji’s vote banks. I mean, she has already started blaming the victim to save these animals

SatyamRajput004

Kaha gaye wo left wing bhdwe?
Mass updvote/down gangs jinone saare Indian subs me hudkamp machaya hua h?

MetaHuman03

Why arresting them, when didi said victim went out late at night

Xray2201

UP mein hote toh abhi tak encounter mein ghutne uda dete

inquisitive_doc

How are they even allowed to hide their faces? Their identities should be broadcast live so everyone knows who these monsters are. The way Bengal Police tried to protect those rapists is disgusting. How can anyone trust that the victim will get justice ?How can anyone trust the system?  when the female CM herself blames the victim for being out at night instead of questioning the men who committed the crime?

When will this country stop blaming women and start holding men accountable? West Bengal has completely gone downhill under her rule,so many horrifying cases ,case after case, and still no real action. How is she still the CM after so many horrifying incidents? Why is the Centre silent? This state has become a disaster under her leadership, and it’s the women who are paying the price.

ansh26111030

sonsofearth

Quick justice. Punish them fast and make it brutal

ImportanceLiving5386

What about the batchmate/friend of the victim who was the one who had coerced her to step out of the campus?

GiveMeSomeSunshine3

Release them asap, it was her fault, why was she going out late night??

JadooJitters

Justice for these 4 poor victims. It's obviously the fault of the girl who decided to exercise her freedom. /S

Man how rotten a person can be to even say such things

SingleBum-003

ROC_K4LP

Protect your daughters, wives, sisters etc.  Please. Teach them self defence, pattern recognition, how to sprint, react quickly

Fluffy_Character9754

No protest this time since culprits are muslims

kangkangroo

Wtf is the BJP people are doing in WB , like how tf are people in central govt they even allowing this shit to happen .

Unbeautiful_Nothing

Jabh nunu kapdey ke andar nai rakh sakey toh shakal bhi kyu rakhni kapdey ke andar.

theprocrastinazy

Complex-Theme-3477

Arey Bengal is the most intellectual state

whitefox0111

In any civilised country passing such casual, offensive, victim blaming statements after such a heinous crime would have brought the wrath of the people on the streets but I forget we don't live in a civilised country. Keeping your family and yourself safe in this country is an achievement in itself especially with scum of the earth politicians in power.

Check-mate-407

Why are they hiding their faces now? This act of theirs is not shameful at all. On the contrary they should be proud of this moment.

Mundane-Original-335

If it was UP, They try to run and get encountered.. end of story

Fxxxingawesome

PopularRaisin9656

Definitely all are Bangladesh illegal migrant

Altruistic_Grand3001

Bro why did you include such an emotional song. You feel sorry for those 4 demons???

Choice_Succotash_491

Just trying to work out which peaceful religion they would belong to?

n4nish

&gt;"This is a private college. Three weeks ago three girls were raped on the beach in Odisha. What action is being taken by the Odisha government?... The girl was studying in a private medical college. How did she come out at 12.30 AM? As far as I know, the incident took place in the forest area. I do not know what happened. The investigation is on. I'm shocked to see the incident, but private medical colleges also should take care of their students, and especially girls..."
The girls should not be allowed to go outside (college) at night. They have to protect themselves also. There is a forest area. Police are searching all the people. Nobody will be excused. Whoever is guilty will be punished strictly. Three people have already been arrested. We will take stringent action... When it happens in other states, it is also condemnable. Such incidents have taken place in Manipur, UP, Bihar, Odisha; we also think the government must take stringent action there. In our state, we charge-sheeted the people within 1-2 months, and the lower court gave the order to hang the accused."

- CM Mamata Banerjee On the alleged gangrape of an MBBS student in Durgapur
 
But but according to cm..........

Last-Wave-9844

NoRelative9202

First how is this rap!st's fault when the victim clearly was out roaming at night? Secondly, wasn't it in the news that "Pussy" police wasn't ready to reveal or arrest them being from special privileged community in WB?

thewhiskeyguy007

Dangerous_Secret5616

40% Comments are here of religion
Men what the dumbass u r . The point is not the religion the point is the mentality of the people, why they are doing this , the physiology behind their mentality....

[look at this ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Btechtards/s/aOiWSaYSga)

Iske baare mein kya khoge ??

Anonymous6339

AgentT30

Glorious_purpose__

Are there more men than women in this country?

imanoobee

She doesn’t need support, demigraphy is altered

GOLD-MARROW

VikrantBh

Handcuffs? They must be made to show their face, are they embarrassed? Why aren't Indian police handcuffing the criminals? They just practice barbarianism by dragging them here and there very primitive

Mental_Log_6879

Bruh justice for them how dare the women go out at night

Emotional-Tart6725

And the families will of course claim that they were good boys &amp; the girl shouldn't have tempted them...

BerlinSam

Mamata Didi will blame the victim and absolve these monsters of any crime.

naturalizedcitizen

why the fuck even let them hide their faces?!! This country and especially Bengal under mc mamta is doomed

Casual_Scroller_00

ममता च्या आईची गांड.

P_D_7

so they feel enough shame to hide their faces, should have thought of that before raping someone.

XxKTtheLegendxX

Munh kaala karne wali harkat karne ke baad munh chhipate ladke... Aathuuuu

Desirra

xiDeliriouSx

slap their hands with a danda every time they cover their face.

Icy_Trouble_9558

Probably will be invited to join TMC next polling season

cricketporga

fungusfromchernobyl

"ladke hai, galti ho jati hai" moment. IYKYK.

trixon123

Why I already kinda knew the names of these culprits before they were even disclosed?

neothewon

Well priority is to ban RSS in Karnataka right now for lefties

sapan_auth

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I am from West Bengal and let me tell you her scheme 

A lot of youth is unemployed and so many of them choose the easy route. Join her party, and become their goons. Literally. This way they get a false sense of power, and obviously a lot of money. These people know if they commit a crime, they will get out of it easily with the help of TMC's power.

The representative of TMC from my place is a girl who allegedly, yes allegedly, graduated college. She doesn't know the 'p' of politics. Totally uneducated and unqualified for this important role. And she gets paid sooo much money for doing basically nothing. 

I'm from a semi urban fairly literate neighbourhood, and let me tell you, nobody likes her. Nobody likes Mamata Banerjee. Even I have never voted for her. Nor has anyone from my family. Every time voting happens, she creates so much drama in the state. Papers somehow magically fall in ponds(yes read that right) they have to redo everything, this and that, every time. So much. I know she would have gotten out of the position by now, if it wasn't for so much corruption. From where i am, where my grandparents are, as far as i know, nobody votes for her. 
How would my state recover from this. I don't know. I feel hopeless.

roosterchicken_

To add to your point


It's not just one but 2 r*pe crimes in 24 hours.


The identity of perpetrators are clear but the gormint ain't doing anything and we know why.


It's real sad and horrifying to see that women's safety is traded for the monetary and power benefits by some of the women themselves.

Excellent_Tie_5604

# According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2021 data. India recorded 31,677 rape cases that year an average of about 86 reported rapes per day, or roughly one every 17 minutes

Majestic-Effort-541

She’s a female CM, of West Bengal ,West Bengal is now a gone case, so why isn’t the Centre taking strict action against them? So many  rape cases come out of there in the news almost daily. And cherry on top ,the CM itself of  the state is  questioning the woman,lol!! Victim blaming at it finest .

We’ve reached a point where even pointing out a crime makes one feel guilty for  being a woman in India. But yeah, “men will be men,” The sad state of our country is abusing, hating, cursing, raping, and murdering women has become so common that you don’t even know whom to point fingers at. India is doomed, for sure.

It’s hard to believe it’s the same country that we worship as Bharat Mata, where goddesses represent wealth, education, strength, patience, and power , yet women are oppressed, tortured,and exploited ,with no one to hear or protect them. How did we end up being such a terrible third world country for women?
May all women in the country stay safe and protected from those beasts and from people with such rotten, toxic mentalities.

Document forgery is very easy and there’s an adjacent country who’s ready to do anything to shift here.

If you’d noticed, one of the perpetrators was wearing a lungi, so go figure 

Far-Newt2088

I want to understand how exactly this is victim blaming.

She said girls should not be allowed to go out at night. And that they should protect themselves.

This is a college in a forest place. It's remote.

For me, it didn't look like she blamed the girl that she got raped because she went out at night. It sounded like asking the college to not allow girls to go out at night. And the girls to protect themselves.

It certainly restricts freedom for girls. We certainly want freedom for girls. But let's face it. This is India. Not Amsterdam.

I agree that men should be policed. But is it realistically possible to have police around every college even in remote places.
I get that BJP just found fresh fodder considering its Mamata.
For some reason, all men are in on this to collectively pounce on her.

But what do you girls think? is this really victim blaming?

roronoasoro

DakuMangalSinghh

After the limping videos of criminals, I don't trust any video by any police.

ChartVishleshak

Oh yes, face should be covered always! Need to protect the actual culprits or close the case by putting anyone under that cloth to save face for their incompetence. 

It's unbelievable that every college/hospital/office premises cases never have cctvs. We stand in the month of October and not one mandate or circular I have seen from law protectors to mandatory have cctvs in all campuses/institutions.

googleydeadpool

Cheap_trick1412

How many times man, literally every day, one gang rape.

I know people are going to downvote me when ever I bring this up.

Gang rape is not a crime like rape, it needs multiple people, it needs co-ordination, it needs practice. That means we have a serious underbelly that we are just allowing to grow and just blindly thinking arresting the rapists will stop this magically is stupid.

Just killing the rapists is not going to solve the problem. This is a social problem, not a purely criminal one.

To prevent it, we need to build awareness and fight this socially to minimize the conditions for these types of crimes.

comeonwhatdidIdo

A 17-year-old girl from Bihar was allegedly gang-raped in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar late Friday night. The girl was rescued and admitted to Capital Hospital by a group of autorickshaw drivers, police said.

“The survivor’s condition remains critical. She is in the ICU. CCTV footage from the area is being examined,” police commissioner S. Dev Datt Singh said.

According to the police, the girl was found lying unconscious with multiple injuries on the roadside near the Ashoknagar area of Bhubaneswar. The locals initially mistook her to be specially abled. Later, a group of autorickshaw drivers noticed her and shifted her to Capital Hospital.

The hospital authorities said the girl was brutally assaulted and was in a state of trauma. “She was unable to speak clearly but managed to indicate that she was from Bihar,” a hospital official, requesting anonymity, said.

The hospital authorities alerted the police. “A case was registered and efforts are on to identify and arrest the culprits. Her identity is also being verified,” Singh said.

As per police records, the crime rate against children in Odisha is 59.5%, based on the actual child population of 144.1 lakh (as per Census 2011). The overall chargesheet rate for such crimes stood at 41.5% in 2023, one of the lowest in the country, and the pendency percentage in court was 90.

SuccessfulHumanClone

Every single fucking one of them deserves this treatment below:

https://preview.redd.it/7ahr2enae0wf1.jpeg?width=480&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=a2c4425bb59efdbdfe771f0087df657afff38e44

Effective-Picture606

For folks hoping for justice - our justice system is blatantly broken. Only bail applications get heard as it is easy to allow/deny quickly. Everything else is so slow, it's always a punishment for the victims.

GreatlyUnimportant

I hope she gets justice, but how will it happen when people are only directed to kolkata and non bjp ruled state cases by media

Such-Emu-1455

But how could that happen?? The father from Durgapur incident told us Odisha so much better and he's taking his daughter back??

archetype_7

They are not men and more importantly what's wrong with mumta tho?

ErebusStride

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