West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (October 12, 2025) termed the gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district as "shocking", and said that no accused would be spared.

Speaking to reporters at Kolkata airport before leaving for natural disaster-hit north Bengal to oversee relief and rehabilitation work, Ms. Banerjee said her government has zero tolerance for such incidents.

"This is a shocking incident... We have zero tolerance for such crimes. Three accused have been arrested and police are conducting search for others. Nobody will be spared," she said in her first reaction to the incident.

The medical college student, hailing from Jaleswar in Odisha's Balasore district, was allegedly raped by some men in Durgapur, police said on Satu

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