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Rape case: Bengal health dept orders probe, seeks report from medical college

Kolkata, Oct 11 (UNI) The West Bengal health department today took a suo motu cognizance and sought report from a private medical college and hospital in Durgapur after a 2nd year medical student allegedly gang-raped outside the campus last night, official sources said.
The 23-year-old medical student, the resident of Jaleswar in Odisha, was allegedly raped after being abducted by some unidentified men when she stepped outside her college campus with a male classmate to eat in the industrial Durgapur in West Bengal's West Bardhaman district last night.
State health principal secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam said that Director of Medical Education Indrajit Saha today sent a notice to the hospital in Durgapur and sought a detailed report by Sunday.
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