Coming close on the heels of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata in August 2024 and the alleged rape of a student at the South Calcutta Law College in June this year, the Durgapur incident saw all Opposition parties coming down heavily on the Mamata Banerjee-government.<\/p>\n
While sharing his post on X, Adhikari implied that all the accused in the case were Muslims. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u09a6\u09c1\u09b0\u09cd\u0997\u09be\u09aa\u09c1\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ac\u09c7\u09b8\u09b0\u0995\u09be\u09b0\u09bf \u09ae\u09c7\u09a1\u09bf\u0995\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09b2 \u0995\u09b2\u09c7\u099c\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a1\u09be\u0995\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf \u09aa\u09a1\u09bc\u09c1\u09af\u09bc\u09be\u09b0 \u0997\u09a3\u09a7\u09b0\u09cd\u09b7\u09a3\u09c7\u09b0 \u0985\u09ad\u09bf\u09af\u09c1\u0995\u09cd\u09a4\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u09aa\u09b0\u09bf\u099a\u09af\u09bc \u09a6\u09c7\u0996\u09c7 \u09a8\u09bf\u09a8:- \u09ae\u09ae\u09a4\u09be \u09ac\u09a8\u09cd\u09a6\u09cd\u09af\u09cb\u09aa\u09be\u09a7\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09af\u09bc\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a8\u09bf\u099c\u09c7\u09b0 \u0995\u09a5\u09be\u09af\u09bc \u098f\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 ‘\u09b2\u09be\u09a5\u09bf \u0996\u09be\u0993\u09af\u09bc\u09be’ \u09a8\u09bf\u09af\u09bc\u09c7 \u0986\u09aa\u09a4\u09cd\u09a4\u09bf \u0995\u09b0\u09be \u0989\u099a\u09bf\u09a4 \u09a8\u09af\u09bc !!!\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/gVs5JDLfcu<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Suvendu Adhikari (@SuvenduWB) October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya amplified Adhikari’s tweet and remarked that the reason Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee indulged in victim blaming instead of blaming the accused was because the accused were Muslims. This is in reference to Banerjee’s remarks<\/a> on the incident, wherein she stated that girl students residing in hostels should not venture out at night and must protect themselves. (Archive<\/a> to Malviya’s tweet)<\/p>\n Here is the reason why West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the second year MBBS student from Durgapur (West Bengal) for her gang rape.<\/p>\n Take a look at the identities of the accused: No\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/TbvQgDU1Uj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Andhra Pradesh BJP vice-president Vishnu Vardhan Reddy also shared the Muslim names in a tweet and called for their arrest. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n Instead of standing with the Durgapur MBBS student who was brutally gang-raped, Ms @MamataOfficial<\/a> chose to blame the victim.<\/p>\n The accused – Sheikh Nasim Uddin, Sheikh Riyaz Uddin, Sheikh Ferdaus, and Sheikh Safikul from Bijra village, expose the lawlessness thriving under her\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/0iV2ewpm7o<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (@SVishnuReddy) October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Right Wing influencers @MrSinha_<\/a>\u00a0and @MeghUpdates<\/a> also shared these Muslim names as the names of accused in the case.\u00a0In a report, News18, while quoting officials, mentioned the same four names and stated that they had been arrested. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n Several others amplified the claim that only Muslims were the accused in the case. X User Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch)<\/a> suggested West Bengal police “Can’t reveal the name of Rapists” as they were Muslims. Another user, @SquintNeon<\/a>, claimed four persons had been arrested, namely Sheikh Nasim Uddin, Sheikh Riyaz Uddin, Sheikh Ferdaus and Sheikh Safikul. (Archives 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>)<\/p>\n X user Prashant Umrao<\/a>, who is a BJP spokesperson and advocate-on-record at Supreme Court according to his bio, wrote on X, “In Durgapur, Sheikh Naseemuddin, Sheikh Riyazuddin, Firdaus, and Sheikh Safikul abducted an MBBS student from the Medical College of Bengal and gang-raped her…”<\/p>\n Durgapur (East) deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Abhishek Gupta stated that three arrests had been made and that the arrested men had been forwarded to court as of October 12.<\/p>\n [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jclmqLgmerc?si=9Kk4WMouwdHqgfac]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to an Indian Express report<\/a>, police had identified the arrested men as Apu Bauri (21), Firdous Shiekh (23), and Sheikh Riazuddin (32). Several other news outlets reported this. (Here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.) The other two individuals mentioned in the claims above, Sheikh Nasim Uddin and Sheikh Safikul, were not among the arrested persons.<\/p>\n Alt News spoke to DCP Gupta, who confirmed that Apu Bauri had been arrested in the case and produced in court. “No one named Safikul had been arrested yet,” he told Alt News at 5.57pm on October 12. Another officer, who did not wish to be named, confirmed the same to Alt News. He also told us that police were on the lookout for at least one more accused.<\/p>\n To sum up, many BJP politicians and Right-wing influencers chose not to mention the name Apu Bauri while listing the names of the accused in the alleged Durgapur gang-rape case. By doing this they suggested or directly claimed that the accused or arrested persons in the case were all Muslims. This is false. The claim that the names of the arrested persons were not released is also baseless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reacting to the alleged gang rape of an MBBS student in West Bengal’s Durgapur, leader of Opposition and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikai on October 12 claimed on X that four persons — Sheikh Nasim Uddin, Sheikh Riyaz Uddin, Sheikh Ferdaus and Sheikh Safikul — had been named as accused in the case. A 23-year-old student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":306155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,55],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[706,715],"class_list":["post-306124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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