Kolkata, July 9 -- "My daughter was within a fully secure place," said Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar Medical College rape victim and West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, on the Baruipur minor's gangrape and murder case, asking people not to link her daughter to the latter.

Debnath said the alleged gangrape and murder of a Muslim 11-year-old girl in South 24 Parganas' Baruipur was a result of the seeds sown by the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government.

"I strongly condemn this and express severe detestation," she told reporters on Wednesday, July 8. "But my daughter's incident is not the same as this incident. I will tell you why."

The newly appointed BJP MLA explained that her daughter was in a "completely secure ...