Activists and doctors across India are planning to march on Wednesday evening to demand justice for a female doctor, who was raped and murdered while on duty in a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Protests titled “Reclaim the Night” are expected in West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, among other states, according to an organiser of the protests based in Kolkata.
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This comes after two days of nationwide protests by doctors following the incident at RG Kar Medical College in West Bengal’s capital city.