On December 12, the families of the three girls approached the local police station, saying they suspect that the girls may have been kidnapped while on their way to school on December 11 morning.
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A purported video of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed a group of women allegedly assaulting the two tribal women with slippers and tearing their clothes.
Reacting to the incident, CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty said, “A girl was raped inside her school. Imagine how fearless the criminal have become under the Trinamool Congress government.”