IN a press statement issued on November 23, the All India Democratic Women’s Association has strongly condemned the brutal rape and murder of an adolescent girl of tenth class in Kakdwip, South 24 Parganas on November 22. This is an incident trailing after Park Street, Kamduni, Katwa and innumerable such in West Bengal under the regime of a woman chief minister. The earlier cases are yet to see justice. AIDWA strongly feels that West Bengal has become a state of rape and violence against women. AIDWA has expressed complete solidarity with hundreds of villagers, particularly the women of the village who came out and demanded police to register a case. AIDWA leaders Minati Ghosh, Sabitri Majumdar, Chandana Bhowmik, Shakuntala Paik, Saraswati Das and others along with them were with the villagers. It is only when the AIDWA in a delegation with the villagers in a forty-five minute interaction in police station asked why rape charge was not put by the police in the FIR report that the police committed to take up the case. On November 23, police included rape in the FIR under pressure. AIDWA has supported the bandh call in Kakdwip on November 23 in protest. AIDWA demands the arrest of the alleged criminals in the case.