Bengali Actors Protest Overnight Over Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder
NDTV
Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder: As the protest continued well past midnight, the air was filled with revolutionary songs like "Karar Oi Louho Kopat", "We Shall Overcome", among others.
Film director Aparna Sen, prominent personalities from the Bengali film industry and rights activists on Sunday joined thousands of people in a massive rally demanding justice for a doctor who was raped-murdered at RG Kar hospital here last month.
At the end of the rally, the participants of the Mahamicchil squatted at the busy Esplanade area of the city, vowing to be there till 4am on Monday morning to press upon the government for a swift probe into the henious crime and arrest of the guilty.
As the protest continued well past midnight, the air was filled with revolutionary songs like "Karar Oi Louho Kopat", "We Shall Overcome", among others.
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