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Rights panel summons MP for remarks on Park Street rape
Wednesday February 27, 2013 10:20:48 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The West
Bengal Human Rights Commission Wednesday issued summons to Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar who had called the
Park Street rape case a "sex deal gone wrong".
"The commission has asked the MP to appear before it and explain
the remarks she made about the victim. The commission is offering
her a chance to defend herself," the panel's joint secretary Sujay
Kumar Haldar said.
Talking about the Feb 6, 2012, case in which an Anglo-Indian woman
was allegedly raped at gunpoint in a moving car in the early hours
by a gang of five after picking her up from Park Street, Ghosh
Dastidar claimed it to be a "sex deal gone wrong".
"If you are referring to the Park Street case, it was not at all a
rape case. It was a misunderstanding between two parties involved
in a sexual dealing - the lady and her clients. It was not a
rape," Ghosh Dastidar told a TV news channel Dec 28 last year.
The commission has also obtained an approval from the office of
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to summon the member of parliament
(MP).
The commission also urged Kolkata Police to speed up
investigations and sought the footage from the television channel
wherein the MP made the remarks.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too had courted
controversy after she dubbed the allegation as "cooked-up to
malign my government".
After more than a year, a court Feb 19 framed charges of gangrape
against three of the accused who were arrested.
The police in their charge sheet submitted in May last year named
five people, of whom three are behind bars.
However, two others, including prime accused Kader Khan, are yet
to be arrested.
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