By IANS,
Kolkata : Amid reports of rape cases across West Bengal, a delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) that is visiting Kolkata, Monday denied this was intended to pressurise the state government.
“We are concerned, and that is the reason why we are here. But creating pressure on the government is not the reason behind the visit,” said Anita Agnihotri, member-secretary, NCW.
Agnihotri Monday met with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other senior government and police officials.
After the parleys, she said Banerjee had assured them that a neutral investigation will be conducted by the state government in all the cases referred by NCW.
In the last 10 months of the Mamata Banerjee-led regime, a number of rape cases have come to light through the media.
The efforts of the West Bengal administration, led by the state’s first woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to play down an Anglo-Indian woman’s complaint of rape in fashionable Park Street raised the hackles of rights bodies and eminent people.
Banerjee has also denied reports of a widow being raped in Katwa area of Burdwan district by terming it as a ‘cooked up’ case.