Bengal Rape survivor’s father issues BIG statement, appeals government to shift daughter to Bhubaneswar, says ‘Her life’s in danger’
The father made a plea to the Odisha government after a team of officials from Balasore visited the hospital on Saturday, acting on the direction of Majhi, who had spoken to him over phone the same night.
Bhubaneswar: The father of a 23-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped in West Bengal’s Durgapur, appealed to the Odisha government to shift her to Bhubaneswar for treatment. He has cited a threat to her life. Her parents, residents of Jaleswar in Balasore district, rushed to West Bengal after being informed about the incident.
“I appeal to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to help shift my daughter to Bhubaneswar. I fear that her life may be in danger,” the father told PTI over the phone from Durgapur on Sunday. The survivor, a second-year MBBS student, is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Durgapur.
The Dalit woman was allegedly raped by three men while she had gone out of the campus with a male student around 8 pm on Friday, officials said.
The student’s father said the family felt unsafe in West Bengal and was “too frightened to trust anyone”. “They (not taking any name) will kill my daughter. Her health condition has improved, but there is danger to her life. I cannot trust them,” he said.
“I am hiding in Durgapur, while my wife, a diabetic, stands at the bedside of our daughter in the hospital,” he added.
The father made a plea to the Odisha government after a team of officials from Balasore visited the hospital on Saturday, acting on the direction of Majhi, who had spoken to him over phone the same night.
Asked about West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s reported remark that girls should not venture out of campus at night, the father said: “This is completely false. I see an attempt to suppress the incident. My daughter had not gone out at midnight — it was just 8 pm on Friday.”
He further alleged that the survivor had gone out with a male companion who fled the scene during the attack and did not alert anyone.
“She was attacked between 8 pm and 9 pm. Her male companion ran away and did not raise an alarm or seek help. The miscreants then dragged her into a jungle area and did unspeakable things to her,” he claimed.
(With PTI Inputs)
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