SC seeks WB reply on bail plea of Park Street gangrape accused

January 02, 2013 18:20

The Supreme Court today granted another two weeks to West Bengal Government to respond to its notice on a plea by a Park Street gang rape accused against denial of bail to him by the Calcutta High Court.

A bench of justices A K Patnaik and H L Gokhale had issued notice to the state government on November 26, 2012 and sought its reply within three weeks on a plea by Sumit Bajaj, one of the youths accused of gang-raping an Anglo-Indian woman in a car on February 5 last year.

The high court had rejected Bajaj's bail plea along with that of another accused in the case on October 19, 2012.

Here's what TMC's Kakoli Ghose Dastidar said on the Park Street rape. Read

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