Howrah, West Bengal: Two women of a family are in a hospital in West Bengal after being allegedly gang-raped by eight men in a village in the Howrah district, neighbouring Kolkata, on Tuesday.<br /><br />The women looked like "dogs had attacked them", according to people of their village.<br />The alleged assault apparently had political overtones; the women are from a family of CPM supporters and the alleged rapists, seven of whom have been arrested, are said to be linked to the state's ruling Trinamool Congress.<br />The police have arrested seven men. The eighth person named in the FIR, Barun Makal, is reportedly an election agent of a Trinamool legislator. He is still missing. Another insisdance of gangrape is in Kashmir.<br /><br />Jammu & Kashmir's minister for health is in serious trouble after a subordinate working as a block medical officer in the state capital Srinagar charged him with molesting her.<br />The woman doctor, said to be a close relative of a senior Kashmiri separatist leader, told police in Srinagar that Shabir Ahmad Khan, a Congress minister in J&K's five-year-old National Conference-led coalition, made lewd verbal suggestions and "advances amounting to molestation."<br /><br /><br />For More information on this news visit : http://www.newsx.com/<br />Connect with us on Social platform at : http://www.facebook.com/newsxonline<br />Subscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/newsxlive
