Now, actress Alia Bhatt has published a long post on her Instagram account in which she stresses that the atrocities against women continue even after the Nirbhaya TragedyThe actress also stressed the importance of women living better lives.
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Alia began by saying, “Another brutal rape. Another day that reminds us that women are not safe anywhere. Another horrific atrocity that reminds us that more than a decade has passed since the Nirbhaya tragedy and yet not much has changed.”
She also cited examples and statistics from recent years: “Let the statistics speak: • 30% of doctors in India and 80% of our nursing staff are women. In an environment of growing violence against medical personnel, it is women who are most at risk. • Since 2022, the number of crimes against women has increased by 4%.of which over 20% involve rape and assault. • In 2022, nearly 90 rapes were reported per day in India. *Sources include National Crime Records Bureau report 2022.’
Alia also highlighted the lack of safety for women in the workplace: “How are we all supposed to feel as women? How are we supposed to go to work or go about our daily lives with this on our minds? This horrific incident has reminded us once again that women bear a disproportionate amount of responsibility for their own safety.”
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The ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ actress also urged those in power to make women’s safety a top priority, “Despite the many crimes and all the women who have suffered, there is no real possibility or hope of things changing. We could not save this young woman, but we can try to prevent something like this from happening again. My request to those in power is: • FOCUS on women’s safety. • FOCUS on creating safe spaces and improving all means of protection. • FOCUS on the why. It is clear that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way our society currently functions. These repeated inhumane acts against women prove that something is wrong at the root and unless we dig deep and eradicate the cause, nothing will change!”
She concluded, “Don’t tell women to change their path – change the terrain. Every woman deserves better.”
A volunteer from the Calcutta Police Sandra Roy was arrested on Saturday in connection with the gruesome rape and murder of a second-year doctor at RG Kar Hospital. The arrest came just six hours after police formed a seven-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case. On August 11, investigators found crucial evidence against Sanjay Roy, the prime suspect in the rape and murder of the 31-year-old doctor. A team from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrived in Kolkata to take over the case and there are violent protests by doctors and nurses across the country.
