Rising Rapes in Bengal’s Medical Colleges Under Mamata Banerjee’s Watch

In yet another eye-opening case that has unveiled the dark side of the safety issues in educational centres in West Bengal, a 23-year old second year MBBS student of Odisha was reportedly raped by a gang of males outside her own medical college in Durgapur. The ugly assault occurred late on a Friday evening, October 10, 2025 and the shock has reverberated throughout the state and beyond. However in a quick strike that offers some ray of hope, three local men are arrested in connection to the crime by the police authorities who confirmed the incident on Saturday.

The young woman lived in Jaleswar in Odisha and she was a student at IQ City Medical College located in the Shivapur region in Durgapur, some 170 kilometers away in Kolkata. Based on the complaint offered by her family, she had gotten out around 8:30 pm with a male classmate with what was expected to be an innocent dinner outing. Close to the college gate, a bunch of four to five men approached them.

The assailants would take the student to a lonely area behind the hospital building and rape her in turns. They took off her mobile phone, too, and demanded Rs 5,000 which she gave them in terror. Her male friend who supposedly led her to the location under some pretexts escaped the scene and currently he is being interrogated by the police, but is not one of those who have been arrested.

A dark cloud has fallen on the heads of the youth in the centre of West Bengal where once gathered young minds to learn the noble art of healing. Medical colleges, and expressly designed to offer hope and care have become a nightmare to many of the students. The cases of gangrapes are coming in thick and thin, shaking the basis of trust and safety. And numerous voices are turning fingers directly at the ruling Trinamool Congress or TMC and its leader, Mamata Banerjee.

They say that her government has given too much leeway to party goons thus making those atrocities more rampant.Imagine this, bright eyed students who were not much at home dreaming to become doctors. But in place of books and lectures they are confronted with fear and violence. Over the past few months, rumors of savage assaults on females in these campuses have been heard like bushfire. Men gangs, which are usually associated with the harshness of TMC, invade and perpetrate inconceivable atrocities. The victims remain in fragments, as the perpetrators go on to enjoy freedom, which is cushioned by political strength.

Why? The chief minister Mamata Banerjee who has become the symbol of safety to every one, especially women, now has to answer brutal questions. Her TMC workers, who are characterized by street muscle, appear to do anything without fear. Local areas are under their control and medical colleges are not an exception. Students mutter that these goons are free to do anything as they are waving the party flag. Rapes that ought to rock the country are barely covered before being suppressed.

Demonstrations follow, yet police, who are on the regime side, drag their heels. The families of the victims are pleading to do something only to suffer a deafening silence.It is not a single bad story but a trend. The same story can be told in the busy RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata and its rural counterparts. Young ladies are being trained to save lives and who is going to save them?

The college walls which have been the pride symbol, now resonate with calls of distress. Parents are afraid to send daughters to study medicine here in worst case scenarios. Betrayal kills the dream of white coats and stethoscopes.What went wrong? Critics claim that it is the culture of fear that TMC has created. The roost is dominated by goons in green jerseys, which are the color of the party. They push their way into hostels, toss around weight as well as when confronted, become violent. The government of Mamata boasts of women safety, and schemes and speeches but on the ground, this is a different story. Laws exist, but enforcement? That’s a joke. Rapid courts that they promise following major cases fade away, but offenders laugh behind the scenes.

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