The brutal rape case of the 31-year-old trainee doctor in Kolkata has shaken the entire country with everybody demanding justice for the incident. While the CBI has taken over the case, several politicians, journalists, celebrities, and every conscious citizen have condemned the incident and have raised their voices against the heinous crime, demanding immediate arrest of the accused involved.
Meanwhile, several others who don’t deserve to be called humans are busy mocking the victim and the crime, further justifying it by glorifying the accused persons involved. One of the persons identified as Mehtaab who is believed to be belonging to Karachi, Pakistan glorified the accused persons and demeaned the victim woman on social media. He indicated that he should also have been part of the group of the accused who brutally raped the doctor during her night duty at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.
Several others on Facebook including Rabia Shah, Almas Chaudhury, and Istiak Ahmed mocked the brutal rape incident by blatantly saying that the victim’s doctor managed to ‘satisfy’ 8-10 people at a time. They further blatantly mocked the woman under the guise of paying tributes to her saying ‘Rape in Peace’ instead of ‘Rest in Peace’.
Another in the name of Rakesh Babesh claiming to be a Brahmin from Delhi termed the incident as ‘hot’. In response to the comment that described the barbarity that the lady doctor had to face on the cruel night of 9th August at the hands of 8-10 men who brutally raped and killed her while on duty, Babesh said, “That’s so hot.” Unsurprisingly, the response attracted laughter reactions from many other users.
In the midst of this, some of the users also body-shamed the woman saying that she didn’t deserve this kind of attention. Calling the woman less beautiful, a user identified as Tushal Moge Wala questioned what must have the rapists seen in the woman. “That victim doctor was not that beautiful, so she didn’t deserve this much attention. I don’t know what those people liked about her. Another incident showing that in India a below-average girl can also attract 10 boys,” the derogatory comment read. (None of these comments could be independently verified. The same though are making rounds on social media).
The incidences and the social media posts boiling blood don’t stop here. Some of the uncivilized people are found to have created fake Instagram accounts in the name of the rape victim calling her a ‘comedian’. One such account discovered by OpIndia demands justice for the incident of rape while calling the victim a ‘comedian’. The same has now been deleted.
One, in the name of Soumill, passes a derogatory comment, again body-shaming the doctor victim. “No disrespect to her but what happened to guys man? Are yo really that desperate to ejaculate inside a woman who is not even pretty? 10 guys. Clown world,” he commented.
The Kolkata Police meanwhile providing the update in the case revealed on August 16th that 25 persons were arrested in the RG Kar hospital vandalism case, while 4 more were identified with the help of social media users. The vandalism happened on 14th August at midnight when the TMC goons as alleged by the BJP barged into the hospital and tried to destroy the evidence in the case after the CBI took over the investigation.
Update: As of now, we have made 25 arrests in relation to the vandalism at R.G. Kar Hospital on Wednesday night. Four more suspects were identified by netizens from our social media posts. The search for the remaining suspects is ongoing. Thank you once again for your support. pic.twitter.com/AlaIU23KOV
— Kolkata Police (@KolkataPolice) August 16, 2024
It was also alleged by the opposition parties that the Kolkata Police and the state were trying to cover up the case by terming it a ‘suicide’ initially. The parents of the girl were also told by the hospital administration in the beginning that the girl had committed suicide. However, later it was found that she had been brutally raped and murdered by around 10 accused persons, none of whom have yet been arrested.
What exactly happened to the girl on 9th August?
On 9th August, a semi-nude body of a female PG trainee doctor was found inside the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. It is a government-run hospital. Following the discovery, her father had said that she was raped and killed inside the hospital, and efforts were underway to “conceal the truth.”
The doctor had dinner with four of her coworkers at 2:30 am that night after seeing Neeraj Chopra’s javelin throw event during the Paris Olympics. Afterwards, she went to the seminar hall to relax. The main accused in the case, Sanjay Roy, had access to every department as he worked at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital police outpost. He was not affiliated with the institution but often went there. CCTV evidence shows him entering the premises where the doctor was discovered, that led to his arrest on 10th August. He returned home after committing the horrifying act and slept in late. Roy also cleaned the outfit he wore to remove any evidence. The police recovered his bloodstained shoes during a search.
The Doctor was brutally tortured before she was suffocated to death, according to the post-mortem report. The four-page report stated that she had been strangled and that “perverted sexuality” and “genital torture” had resulted in serious wounds in her private parts.
The Doctor’s thyroid cartilage was also shattered. A source stated that the rape and murder occurred on 9th August most likely between 3 and 5 am. Her lips, fingers, left leg, and abdomen were all covered with injuries.
According to sources, the Doctor’s head was slammed against a wall or the floor resulting in severe injuries and her mouth and nose were squeezed shut to stop the victim from shouting. The accused had reportedly beaten her up as she attempted to defend herself and resist. He then raped and killed her. According to the autopsy, the girl’s hands and face had cuts on them. Shards of glass from her spectacles broke and got into her eyes following an intense blow. The initial postmortem report ruled out suicide and stated that the trainee doctor had been sexually assaulted before being murdered.
Conclusion
Incidents like this have the potential to infuriate civilized people, who eventually take to the streets to demand justice for women. They speak out against such horrible atrocities, calling into doubt the country’s stated safe atmosphere for women. According to statistics, India witnessed 90 rapes every day until 2022, and the number has subsequently increased as of 2024. In 2012, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern was brutally gang-raped and murdered on a Delhi bus, prompting lawmakers to stiffen laws against sexual violence. But things don’t seem to have changed a lot as women in India continue to feel unsafe at workplaces, while walking on the streets, at places of worship, and even sometimes at their homes.
As per the NCB’s data, conviction rates for rape altered between 27% and 28% from 2018 to 2022. Unfortunately, this is the second lowest rate out of five violent crimes, including murder, kidnapping, rioting, and causing grievous harm. Since 2013, a number of high-profile cases have brought attention to the issue that occurs on a daily basis in some or other parts of the country. In 2018, a 26-year-old man from central India was executed three weeks after being arrested on charges of raping and murdering a baby girl.
Four accused were shot dead by police in 2019 after they raped and killed a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad. The men had been in police custody, and officers stated they were shot dead near the crime site while attempting to steal the weapons of the following police officers. The 2020 gang-rape of a 19-year-old girl in northern India’s Hathras region, followed by her death weeks later in a hospital, sparked widespread outrage. Numerous such instances can be shared revealing the society’s mentality and atrocities against women. But the point behind all this is just to condemn violence against women and seek justice for them heavily. Apart from people who commit such crimes, all those who justify rapes, see women as objects, and mock victim women are also equally liable for grievous punishment. The country that is given the respect as that of a ‘mother’, ‘Bharat Mata,’ must ensure that the women who live within its borders feel safe, free, and independent.
