The nature and quality of police investigation even into heinous crimes like child or minor girl rape has now become a matter of deep concern. This sensitive issue sparked a controversy among opposition parties in the context of a reply given by the home department to an ‘unstarred’ question-meant only for written reply in the house without any supplementary from the mover of the query.

Replying in writing to a query from the CPI (M) MLA Sudip Sarkar, the chief minister Dr Manik Saha who also holds the home portfolio said that in the last three years-that is, 2023-2024,2024-2025 and 2025-2026 (up to July this year) there had been 256 cases of rapes of girl childs or minors had been registered with the police stations across the state. Altogether 326 accused persons in these cases were arr

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