‘3rd term chances for BJP getting bleaker’
Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the BJP’s chances of returning to power are becoming bleak while predicting a rich harvest for her party in Bengal.
The woman who had accused Olympian and national table tennis player Soumyajit Ghosh of repeatedly raping her on the promise of marriage, on Sunday claimed that chief minister Mamata Banerjee has assured her of justice.
The woman met the chief minister at her Kalighat residence this morning seeking justice. “The chief minister has assured me of justice. I informed her about the police inaction in not arresting him or anybody from his family,” the woman said after the meeting with Miss Banerjee.
“She told me that the police was carrying out their inquiry into the matter and will take proper action,” the woman said. The victim further alleged that the paddler and his family members have been hiding since the complaint was lodged.
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The woman had lodged an FIR with the police alleging that Ghosh had been raping her for the last couple of years after promising marriage. She had also alleged that the Olympian had forced her to undergo an abortion at his Bagha Jatin flat in south Kolkata.
In her complaint, she claimed that the two became friends on a social networking site in 2014 and the Olympian had promised to marry her after she turned 18.
The police had booked the 24-year-old Arjuna awardee under IPC Sections for rape, criminal conspiracy, causing miscarriage without the woman’s consent and cheating. Following the complaint, Ghosh was dropped from the national squad for the Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in Gold Coast from 4 April.
The paddler had claimed innocence and said the woman was blackmailing him for money and the allegations were a ploy to ruin his career.
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