The brutal rape of a student in a law college in Kolkata, occurring less than a year after the barbaric rape and murder of a junior doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, also in the heart of the city, is shocking beyond belief. Four people have been arrested. A guard, who, it appears, abetted by negligence; two male students of the college, who seem to have actively conspired; and the man alleged to be the primary perpetrator, an alumnus of the college, a casual, non-teaching employee there, and, not unpredictably, a former Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad leader. Kolkata has long enjoyed the reputation of being a safe and hospitable city for women. That reputation is unfortunately........

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