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Bengal ‘gangrape’ case | Father of woman seeks Mamata’s forgiveness: ‘She is like mother’
Two days ago, the father had slammed the chief minister for saying that "women should not venture out at night”.
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Members of Students' Federation of India stage a protest against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the alleged rape of a medical student, in Kolkata on Tuesday. (PTI photo)The father of the MBBS student, who was allegedly gangraped last week outside her medical college campus, described West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a “mother-like figure” on Wednesday and urged her to forgive him if he had said anything wrong against her.
Two days ago, the father had slammed the chief minister for saying that “women should not venture out at night”, and said that he no longer felt safe in West Bengal. “How can the CM ask what my daughter was doing at 12.30 am inside the jungle. I was called (about the rape) at 10.15 pm? Imagine how I felt hearing this,” he had told The Indian Express, following the alleged gang rape of his daughter, a medical student.
Speaking to mediapersons on Wednesday, the father said, “Mamata Banerjee is like a mother-like figure to me. If I have said anything wrong, I ask her to forgive me. I will render countless obeisances at her feet. But I ask her to help my daughter get justice.”
He said that he would take his daughter back home once she is declared fit by the treating doctors.
“My daughter’s future is finished… I want to appeal that my daughter gets justice and the accused get stringent punishment so that other women of Bengal do not face what my daughter faced,” he said.
Reiterating his demand for a CBI probe into the incident, he said: “I have been demanding a CBI probe into this case. I think that would be good. But that depends on the state administration as well,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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