On August 9, a junior doctor was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, after which people have now taken to the streets in the state for justice. Not only are junior doctors protesting on the streets of Kolkata’s Lal Bazaar and demanding justice for Kolkata’s Nirbhaya but also raising questions about women’s safety.
The Kolkata rape case is being raised not only in the state but across the country, due to which CM Mamata Banerjee announced an anti-rape bill. The bill will be introduced in the assembly today.
Mamata government will introduce the bill
The Mamata government will bring this bill in the West Bengal Assembly today. The name of this bill will be Aparajita Women and Children Bill 2024. Within this bill, several rules will be made regarding crimes against women and children, with only one objective, to prevent crimes against women and children in the state.
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What will be inside this bill?
- Provision for death penalty in cases of rape and murder
- Under this bill, there will be provision of death penalty within 36 days of filing of charge sheet.
- Not only rape but also acid attack is an equally serious crime for which the bill provides for life imprisonment.
- A Special Force-Aparajita Task Force will be constituted in each district.
- This Aparajita Task Force will take action in cases of rape, acid attack or extortion.
- Another very important thing added in this bill is that if anyone discloses the identity of the victim, strict action will also be taken against him.
Attempts were made to bring such a bill earlier as well
A special session has been called to introduce this bill in the state. Although this is not the first time that a state government has introduced such bills for rape and serious crimes against women and children, two states have already attempted to introduce such bills. Andhra Pradesh tried to introduce a direction bill in 2019 and Maharashtra started a campaign to introduce a Shakti bill in 2020, but the bill was not approved.
Kolkata rape case case is currently in the hands of CBI and CBI is uncovering and investigating every level of this case. The CBI had on September 2 arrested Sandeep Ghosh, the former principal of the medical college, on charges of corruption.
