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President Droupadi Murmu – in her first public statement on the brutal rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata nearly 20 days ago – said she is “dismayed and horrified”. She said no civilised society can allow women to be subjected to such atrocities.
President Murmu’s Quotes On Crime Against Women
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“Even as students, doctors, and citizens were protesting in Kolkata, criminals remained on the prowl elsewhere,” President Murmu told the news agency PTI.
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“Enough is enough,” anguished President Murmu said on crimes against women.
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She said that society needs “honest and unbiased self-introspection” and has to ask itself “some difficult questions”.Â
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President Murmu said that very often, a “deplorable mindset” sees the female as a “lesser human being, less powerful, less capable, and less intelligent”.
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“In 12 years since Nirbhaya, countless rapes have been forgotten by society. This “collective amnesia” is obnoxious,” she told PTI. A 23-year-old paramedic student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless one — was raped and brutally assaulted inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six people, before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012.
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President Murmu said that societies are “scared to face history resort to collective amnesia”. “Time now for India to face history squarely,” she said.
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“Let us deal with this perversion in a comprehensive manner to curb it right at the beginning,” she said.Â
The rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9 has caused nationwide outrage. Junior doctors have refused to see non-emergency patients in many parts of the country. They are demanding justice for the victim and greater safety for women at hospitals.