Mamata condemns Delhi gangrape (Lead, superseding earlier story)

"We condemn the Delhi rape; we condemn the rapes and eve teasing in Bengal," said Banerjee at a function here.

There has been countrywide outrage over the gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a young student on a bus in New Delhi The brutal rape and torture took place Dec 16 night when the woman along with her male friend after watching a movie boarded a private bus at Munirka in south Delhi to go to Dwarka in west Delhi.