Bengal Betrays Women: The Silent Emergency Under Mamata’s Rule

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Bengal Betrays Women — the phrase that now echoes across India’s conscience. Once the land of Tagore and Durga, West Bengal has become a graveyard of women’s safety under Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. The NCRB data paints a chilling reality: over 34,738 crimes against women, Rape cases crossing 4,000 by mid-2024, and conviction rates falling to a shocking 17%. From the brutal RG Kar Medical College case to the Sandeshkhali horror and trafficking in Kolkata, the stories reveal a pattern of crime, cover-up, and political protection.  Doctors, law students, and common women- all have suffered under a system where the powerful walk free. Bengal Betrays Women isn’t just a report - it’s a question of conscience. Will Bengal demand justice, or will silence continue to reign under the Trinamool’s shadow?    #BengalBetraysWomen  #JusticeForBengal  #WomenSafetyCrisis  #TrinamoolAccountability  #SaveBengalDaughters  ~PR.282~HT.408~

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00:00In the land once called the cradle of India's renaissance, where Tagore's words inspired freedom and Durga symbolized strength,

00:07West Bengal today carries a darker title, a state where women are unsafe.

00:13Under 13 years of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamul Congress, Bengal has descended into fear, impunity and betrayal of its daughters.

00:22The numbers don't lie.

00:23According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 2022, Bengal registered 34,738 crimes against women, placing it among the highest in India.

00:36That's 71.8 incidents per 100,000 women, higher than the national average of 66.4.

00:44Rape cases alone exceeded 3,000 in Bengal out of India's 31,516.

00:50And preliminary data shows 2023 witnessed a 15.3% rise in crimes against women.

00:59By mid-2024, over 4,000 rapes and assaults were already fired.

01:05Experts estimate that by the end of 2025, total crimes against women could cross 40,000 cases, a shocking 20% jump from just 3 years ago.

01:17And yet, conviction rates remain at a pathetic 17%.

01:23In other words, 8 out of 10 accused in Bengal walk free, free because of political patronage and systemic rot.

01:32August 20, 24, R.G. Kerr Medical College in Kolkata became a crime scene.

01:38A 31-year-old woman doctor, raped, brutalized, murdered.

01:43Bite marks, fractures, strangulation, the cruelty was unspeakable.

01:48But the real horror, the cover-up.

01:51The FIR was delayed for 12 hours.

01:54Evidence, evidence tampered.

01:57Crime scene sanitized.

01:59Why?

02:00Because college principal Sandeer Ghosh, linked to Srinamul, allegedly ordered it.

02:07His wife was even a TMC candidate.

02:09This wasn't just a crime, it was a political cover-up.

02:13Doctors went on strike for 40 days.

02:16The Calcutta High Court had to transfer the case to CBI.

02:19Yet, even after the conviction of one accused, survivors' families alleged multiple attackers shielded by the state.

02:29They killed her twice.

02:30Once with hands, once with silence, her father said.

02:3510 months later, June 2025, South Calcutta Law College,

02:39a 24-year-old student, gang-raped by members of TMC's student wing,

02:45Trinamul Chhatra Parishad.

02:47She was beaten with a hockey stick,

02:51threatened with leaked videos,

02:53and what was the response?

02:56TMC leaders mocked her.

02:58One MLA said,

03:00if she hadn't gone to class at night, this wouldn't have happened.

03:05This is the mindset ruling we call today.

03:09In Sandesh Khalil,

03:11women accused TMC strongman Sheikh Shah Jahan

03:14of systematic rapes and landcrafts.

03:16Over 200 complaints,

03:19detail abductions,

03:20torture,

03:21trafficking.

03:23For 55 days,

03:24Shah Jahan evaded arrest.

03:27Victims were forced to retract statements under threats.

03:31Even Amnesty International noted that 500 families were displaced.

03:36The High Court,

03:38the Supreme Court,

03:39both had to intervene.

03:42Still,

03:43TNC leaders dismissed it all as BJP fabrications.

03:48Imagine the audacity branding survivors as liars while shielding rapists.

03:54September 2025,

03:56nine minor girls,

03:58aged 12 to 17,

04:01rescued from a brothel in Kolkata,

04:03sold for as little as 5,000 rupees each.

04:07NCRB data shows,

04:09Bengal recorded 1,261 human trafficking cases in 2022,

04:15third highest in India,

04:17up 25% from the year before.

04:21Many miners,

04:23many linked to TMC's Katwani rackets.

04:26Survivors told reporters,

04:28they said,

04:29no one would help us.

04:31Didi's men run this.

04:34And just days ago,

04:35in September 2025,

04:37Panskura,

04:38super speciality hospital manager,

04:40allegedly TMC linked,

04:43was arrested for serially raping women staff for over a year.

04:48Complaints?

04:49Ignore.

04:50FIRs?

04:52Buried.

04:53Arrest?

04:53Only after media exposure.

04:56This is the cycle.

04:58Rape.

04:58Cover up.

05:00Intimidation.

05:02From Murshidabad to Dinhata,

05:05North 24 Parganas to Purb Medinipur,

05:08the story is the same.

05:11Riots,

05:12abductions,

05:13assaults,

05:14dowry debts,

05:15conviction rates barely touching 10 to 15%.

05:18A 2024 study by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements

05:22gave Bengal a women's risk index of 8.2 out of 10.

05:27The worst in Eastern India.

05:30And only 30% of assaults are even reported.

05:34The rest silenced through threats and intimidation.

05:38From the doctor at Arjikar to the law student in Kasbah to the women of Sandesh Khali and the miners trafficked in Kolkata,

05:48each story is a scar on Bengal's soul.

05:52And the culprit is not just the predator,

05:55but a government that shields them.

05:59A state where conviction is rare,

06:02intimidation is routine,

06:04and women's dignity is traded for political survival.

06:09Mamata Banerjee promised to be Bengal's didi.

06:11Instead,

06:13her regime has turned Bengal into a graveyard of women's safety.

06:18With the elections in 2026,

06:20the question is simple.

06:23Will Bengal choose impunity or will it demand dawn?

06:27For the women of Bengal,

06:29justice delayed is justice denied,

06:31and their cries can no longer be silenced.

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