Kolkata: Students and women organisations have asked the West Bengal Government to take action and deliver quick justice on the increasing number of rape cases in Kolkata. Protesting on the streets of the state capital, they demanded one-stop redressal centers for rape victims.
“We are asking for one- stop redressal centres, preferably in hospitals, because once an act of sexual violence takes place, it is very difficult for the girl who is already traumatised, to run from one place to another, going to the police station and then again for medical examination and then again to police for drawing the picture.”, Shashwati Ghosh, a protester, said.
Women’s safety in India has been under the spotlight since the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012, which provoked nationwide protests and the introduction of tougher sexual assault laws, yet an ongoing stream of high-profile attacks have raised concerns that little has changed.
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