The NGO expressed concerns about the potential misuse of laws if marital rape is criminalized, citing past instances of false allegations under other protective legislation.
In Gujrat district of Pakistan's Punjab, a security guard was killed, and several campuses of the implicated private college were vandalized and set on fire.
Earlier on Tuesday, Kolkata High Court had set aside the prohibitory orders by Kolkata police, imposed under sections 163 (1) and (3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which prevented assembly of more than five people in an area.
The Indian Medical Association on Tuesday announced that the IMA Junior Doctors Network across the nation will be fasting in solidarity with the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front.
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday received the memorandum from the Junior Doctor's front on their concern about the RG Kar rape and murder case.
As the junior doctor's protest continues, demanding justice in the RG Kar rape-murder case, Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Monday said that junior doctor don't want the case to be resolved.
Federation of Medical Association (FEMA) has called a two-day pen-down strike in private and government medical colleges and hospitals in Siliguri over issues including the RG Kar rape-murder case.
The Federation of All India Medical Associations (FAIMA) has announced a nationwide boycott of elective medical services starting October 14, 2024, in solidarity with their West Bengal colleagues as part of the doctors protest against rape and murder of a second year old trainee doctor at RG
As per Singh, for the past one and a half years, a female doctor in Delhi has been subjected to sexual harassment, and despite repeated complaints, no action has been taken against the Medical Superintendent (MS) responsible. "Instead, an investigation has been launched against the victim,"
The body of the 31-year-old doctor was found at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Since then thousands of junior doctors in the state have been on a strike.
The Delhi High Court in a recent judgement not only dismissed the plea seeking leave to appeal against acquittal in a false attempt to rape case, but also admonish the state authorities for filing a frivolous litigation.