Kolkata, Feb. 25 -- Notwithstanding five death sentences in as many months, regardless of the nationwide uproar post RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case crimes against women continued to hit headlines in Bengal with the latest being a 27-year-old woman professional getting killed in a car mishap in a bid to escape from five miscreants who were chasing her vehicle in another car for several miles.

The victim, S Chattoadhyay was an event management professional, and a resident of Chandannagar in Hooghly district some 35 km from Kolkata.

The incident took place at Panagarh on the Durgapur Expressway connecting Kolkata and New Delhi in the night intervening Sunday and Monday, sources said. The victim and her two colleague...