The discovery of the 31-year-old's bloodied body on 9 August at a state-run hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata sparked nationwide protests.
KOLKATA - Indian doctors stepped up nationwide protests and strikes Friday after the rape and murder of a colleague, a brutal killing that has focused outrage on the chronic issue of violence against women.
"We want justice", doctors chanted in Kolkata, waving handwritten signs that read:"No safety, no service!""We are intensifying our protests... to demand justice for our colleague," Suvrankar Datta said Friday, from the government-run All India Institutes of Medical Sciences hospital in New Delhi. The Indian Medical Association has called for a"nationwide withdrawal of services" for 24 hours starting Saturday, with suspension of all non-essential and medical procedures at private hospitals.
The man, his head covered in a white sack, was taken Friday for a health checkup, escorted by dozens of armed police. That woman became a symbol of the socially conservative country's failure to tackle sexual violence against women.Under pressure, the government introduced harsher penalties for rapists, and the death penalty for repeat offenders.
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