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He was the vice-president of the association's Kolkata branch. [41] [42] Ghosh had been subjected to two polygraph tests over an alleged cover-up of the rape and allegations of financial fraud and irregularities at the college and hospital. On 2 September, the CBI arrested Ghosh, along with his security aide Afsar Ali and vendors Biplav Singha ...
The case was widely debated in the media, with some political and social commentators casting aspersions on Jordan's character, and quickly became a political issue. When Jordan originally reported the crime, the chief minister of West Bengal , Mamata Banerjee , called her a liar and accused her of trying to embarrass the government, a position ...
The body declared that no lawyer in Barasat would stand for the accused. In the evening hundreds of residents brought out a candlelight procession in Baguiati, Kolkata. [13] On 18 June, around 400 government employees of the Writers' Building marched around the Writers' Building in protest against the Kamduni gang rape and murder.
The 2012 case galvanised nationwide protests and led to stricter sentencing laws, including the death penalty for repeat offenders and the creation of fast-track courts for rape cases. Four men ...
The legal case has reignited criticism of India's poor record on women's safety despite the introduction of tougher laws following the 2012 gang rape and murder of a woman on a moving bus in New ...
In September 2019 when Ms. Jashodaben, the wife of PM Modi, was leaving Kolkata, Mamata met her at the Kolkata airport and gifted her a saree. [203] [204] She identifies herself as a Hindu. [205] Banerjee is a self-taught painter and a poet. [206] [207] Her 300 paintings were sold for ₹9crore (₹90 million, £990,000 or US$1,350,000). [208]
On 30 May 1990, a team of three health officers were returning to Kolkata after inspecting an immunization program in Gosaba. [1] [2] The team consisted of Anita Dewan, the Deputy District Extension Media Officer of the West Bengal Health Department; Uma Ghosh, a senior officer of the Health Department; and Renu Ghosh, a representative of UNICEF's World Health Organization office in New Delhi.
Umesh Reddy (born 1969) is a serial killer and serial rapist from India. He confessed to killing 18 women, [1] and was convicted in 9 cases. [2] The police believe that he raped at least 20 women in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat.