Law Student Attacked on Campus in Kolkata: Nationwide Outrage over Law and Order in Bengal

Horrific incident became outrage news across the country after a 24-year-old law student was allegedly gang-raped on her law college campus in Kolkata. The suspected campus crime at a country's top legal colleges' campus has come under intense scrutiny over campus security and whether law and order is still intact in West Bengal or not.

The victim is said to have been attacked at the late hours of the evening and the problem was reported to the authorities only after she could get her friend's help. She is receiving treatment, and police investigations are already underway. Despite protests by some of the suspects that they were arrested for questioning, there was no mention of arrest or any further update of the case.

The report has created a nation-wide outrage, and people, activists, and students have taken to the streets to protest against the atrocity of the attack. Social media has also been filled with calls to action as #JusticeForKolkataStudent trends on social media.

Political responses have been uneven in coming. Opposition parties had held the Mamata Banerjee state government responsible for not even having basic security arrangements for students. "It is not a crime against a woman, but a failure of the system," is what a senior BJP leader was quoted to have remarked. Congress and CPI(M) leaders also demanded an inquiry by resignation.

Although Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has signaled the desire for high-level inquiry on an oath of "no one involved will be spared," the skeptics are cautiously cynical, remembering previous examples of hanging fire or watered-down justice.

School student communities have conducted candlelight marches and demonstrations calling for greater security within the school campus. Most of them are on the list asking to be informed how this disgusting crime can be committed on the study ground which must also remain a secure ground.

As the probe unfolds, the nation waits with bated breath—hopes to see justice run its course in a case that has re-affirmed women's safety in India yet again.