This Article is From Jan 28, 2016

6 Convicted For Gang-Rape, Murder Of Student In Bengal's Kamduni

The case triggered public anger and demonstrations demanding better safety for women, after which Mamata Banerjee visited the home of the dead student.

Kolkata:

Six people were today convicted for the gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old college student in West Bengal's Kamduni. Two other accused in the case were acquitted.

The court will pronounce the sentencing tomorrow.

Ahead of a verdict protesters clashed with the police outside a court in Kolkata. The protesters are members of the student wing of a Left party.

In June 2013, a college student was abducted on her way home from class, taken to an isolated factory compound where she was gang-raped, and then killed in a village in Kamduni, about 30 km from Kolkata. Her body was found that night by her brother in a canal.

The case triggered public anger and demonstrations demanding better safety for women, after which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the home of the dead student; she controversially accused demonstrators during that visit of having communist and Maoist links, provoking a backlash and a new wave of protests.

Eight men have been charged with the rape and murder; a ninth suspect died in jail during the trial.

 

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