31 year old doctor raped and brutally murdered in Kolkata, India. Doctors protesting for her justice attacked by a huge mob overnight, hospital vandalised.
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"On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, India was found dead, with an autopsy revealing she had been raped and brutally murdered. This horrific incident sparked widespread protests across India, with medical professionals demanding justice and improved safety measures for healthcare workers. Last night, the protesters at the college were attacked by a violent mob of men to break the protest, girls hostel was raided.
The autopsy of the doctor revealed gruesome details. She had been throttled to death, manual strangulation. Additionally, there was 150 mg of semen found in her body, leading to suspicions of gang rape. Her pelvic girdle was broken, spectacles smashed into eyes, injuries and bleeding all over the body.
Authorities at the college tried to pass it off as a “suicide case”. The victim’s parents were made to wait 3 hours outside the crime scene to look at their daughter’s body. Her father was let in finally for few minutes and found her horrific injuries/wounds, it was clear that it wasn’t a suicide. Principal of the college resigned soon after and has already been hired as medical head at another college.
There’s an absolute mayhem in West Bengal and even national newspapers aren’t covering it efficiently on front pages of their papers."
Here's what their politicians had to say about that from a decade ago:
"Boys make mistakes. They should not be hanged for this. We will revoke the anti-rape laws," Mulayam Singh Yadav had said, external during his campaign for the recently-concluded general elections. Mr Yadav's party rules Uttar Pradesh state where many a number of recent rape cases have been reported.
"I have no hesitation in saying that about 90% of the girls consensually go with men and then they end up meeting criminal minds and become targets of rape," -Dharamveer Goyat, senior politician in Haryana state
"Such incidents [rapes] do not happen deliberately. These kind of incidents happen accidentally," -Ramsevak Paikra, home minister of Chhattisgarh state
It [rape] is a social crime which depends on the man and the woman. It is sometimes right and sometimes wrong," -Babulal Gaur, home minister of Madhya Pradesh state
"Even if we provide one policeman per house we can't stop crimes against women... The rise in atrocities against women is due to obscene images used in advertisements," - RR Patil, home minister of Maharashtra state |
