PRESS RELEASE
12/10/2025
It has been two days since the horrific gang rape of an MBBS student from IQ City Medical College and Hospital. The wounds from this incident are still fresh, and society at large which has already lost many of its daughters to this heinous crime is enraged.
In this sensitive moment, the Chief Minister of our state has attempted to shift the blame onto the victim. She has asked private institutions to not “allow” girls outside at night, while also spreading incorrect information about the alleged timing of such a sensitive crime.
This statement not only undermines the hard-fought equal rights and basic human rights of women, but also emboldens miscreants to hunt at night. Although we have seen the Chief Minister’s earlier remarks regarding other rape victims have been equally depraved, morally indefensible, and unbecoming of someone who prides herself on being a champion of women’s emancipation.
We hope that good sense prevails and that she retracts this statement.
From our side a representative team visited the hospital premises and the crime scene today and after thorough discussion with the protesting doctors and students of IQ City Medical College & Hospital here are the updates from our side:
1. The survivor has undergone a repairing surgery and is still recuperating from her injuries in the hospital.
2. Allegedly three suspects have been arrested, the miscreants are reported to be locals. While other suspects still remain at large.
3. The junior doctors and students of IQ City Medical College are continuing their protest movement. They have stated that the college administration has assured them all forms of support and a thorough investigation of this crime. The protestors demand swift action and justice to be delivered as soon as possible and they are determined to continue with their protest till that happens.
WBJDF stands in solidarity with protesting doctors and students of IQ City Medical College & Hospital, and will provide all kinds of support to them, in this fight for justice.
Our demands to the Administration and State are:
1. An immediate legal proceeding against the accused with exemplary punishment for this heinous crime, such that it serves as warning to any other perpetrators from even harbouring such offensive thoughts.
2. Swift, rapid and transparent investigation with non-bailable arrests of the remaining suspects.
3. Ensuring campus safety and security, instead of imposing thousands of rules and regulations on the female students, and caging them. Remember that by doing so, you are indirectly siding with the perpetrators, and taking away basic human rights from women.
4. As the campus is in a desolate area, there needs to be *strict police patrolling* of the surrounding areas at all times, specially at night, to prevent any such incident from ever happening again. This must also be done in all peripheral medical and other colleges of West Bengal. Let this incident serve as a lesson, to prevent any such further crime.
We want to state again, that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied. Let this not be a second Abhaya.
