- “Even as students, doctors, and citizens were protesting in Kolkata, criminals remained on the prowl elsewhere,” President Murmu told the news agency PTI.
- “Enough is enough,” anguished President Murmu said on crimes against women.
- She said that society needs “honest and unbiased self-introspection” and has to ask itself “some difficult questions”.
- President Murmu said that very often, a “deplorable mindset” sees the female as a “lesser human being, less powerful, less capable, and less intelligent”.
- “In 12 years since Nirbhaya, countless rapes have been forgotten by society. This “collective amnesia” is obnoxious,” she told PTI. A 23-year-old paramedic student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless one — was raped and brutally assaulted inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six people, before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012.
- President Murmu said that societies are “scared to face history resort to collective amnesia”. “Time now for India to face history squarely,” she said.
- “Let us deal with this perversion in a comprehensive manner to curb it right at the beginning,” she said.
The rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9 has caused nationwide outrage. Junior doctors have refused to see non-emergency patients in many parts of the country. They are demanding justice for the victim and greater safety for women at hospitals.