The junior doctors protesting over the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case in Kolkata ended their hunger strike after a two-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat Nabanna on Monday night.
Andhra Pradesh former minister RK Roja criticized the state government for failing to protect women, citing rising incidents of rape and murder, and called on Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan, and Home Minister Anita to resign if they cannot ensure women's safety.
At least 17 junior doctors on Monday left for Nabanna in Howrah district to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over their various demands as their hunger strike continues over the alleged rape and murder a female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya has claimed that the Trinamool Congress is feeling pressured by the protest by junior doctors over the RG Kar rape and murder case and wants to suppress their protest.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Sunday alleged that the main issue of the RG Kar rape and murder is being diverted by "those who are running it from behind."
Junior doctors on Saturday held a 21 km protest march in Kolkata demanding justice for the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder incident victim.
The shocking incident emerged in Uttar Pradesh's ballia district where a three children of two tenants aged 6 years, 13 years and 16 years raped the five-year-old daughter of the landlord.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) announced constituting a full court bench to hear the case of different incidents of harassment of female students, GeoTV reported.
During the hearing of Marital Rape case in the Supreme Court on Thursday, a petitioner questioned the Exception 2 of Section 375 of Indian Penal Code, which protects husband from being prosecuted in case of forceful sexual intercourse with his wife, and termed it a matter of 'People versus P