TMC hails Kamduni verdict, opposition questions police role

Ruling Trinamool Congress today hailed the Kamduni verdict and said it showed that the police administration has worked impartially to get the culprits of the gangrape and murder case booked.
The opposition has, however, questioned why it took so long for the police to place the charge sheet and why it failed to get evidence against the two who were acquitted by the court.
"When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Kamduni in 2013 after the incident, she had promised that the culprits will be arrested and punished. Today six accused have been convicted. The conviction itself has proved that the police administration has worked impartially in this case to get the culprits booked for the crime," Jyotipriyo Mullick, state Food Minister told PTI.

A city court today pronounced six accused in the Kamduni gangrape and murder case guilty, while two others were acquitted.
The CPI(M) and Congress questioned what took so long for the police to find evidence against the culprits.
"What took so long for the police to book those criminals? If police had acted impartially then the two who were acquitted could have also been booked," CPI(M) Politburo member Mohammed Salim told PTI.

WBPCC president Adhir Chowdhury too welcomed the conviction of the six accused but questioned the role of police in the probe which led to acquittal of two others.

A 21-year-old student was gangraped and brutally murdered when she was returning home alone at Kamduni, about 50 km from Kolkata, in North 24 Parganas district after appearing for an examination at her college on June 7, 2013.
She was pulled into a farm by the accused when she was walking along a deserted road after alighting from a bus. Her mutilated body was found next morning near the farm.
The incident had led to outrage in the state and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had faced protests by angry villagers when she went there to visit the family members of the victim.