Actor Shabana Azmi has spoken about the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata earlier this month. Speaking with the media after attending an event in Pune, Shabana urged people to stop treating women as commodities. (Also Read | John Abraham warns men after Kolkata rape-murder case: ‘Behave, or I'll tear you apart’ ) Shabana reacts to rape, murder of Kolkata doctor Shabana said, as quoted by news agency ANI, "Such incidents are extremely dangerous.
It's embarrassing to see that these kinds of heinous acts have not reduced despite the formation of Justice Verma Committee back in 2012 during the Nirbhaya case. We should not treat women as commodities..
. we need to dismantle patriarchy which is deep-rooted in us." President too reacted to the incident Earlier on Wednesday, President Droupadi Murmu expressed anguish over the rising cases of crimes against women in the wake of the gruesome rape and murder of the young doctor in Kolkata.
She penned an open letter, Women's Safety: Enough is Enough, in which she called for self-introspection to uncover the roots of the malaise. Expressing concern over collective amnesia over the memory of criminality, she said the time has come not only to face history squarely "but also to search within our souls and probe the pathology of crime against women". On August 9, a postgraduate trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered on duty at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, which has led to protests.
People have been deman.