New Delhi: Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose called for arranging effective protection to girl students, women staff and members of non-teaching staff in the wake of the rape-murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, NDTV reported.
Meanwhile, Ananda Bose, who is at loggerheads with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the past, came down on the state police’s handling of the incident at RG Kar Medical College.
It is reported that the Governor has called a meeting with Vice Chancellors of the state's universities alongside having a meeting with protesters tomorrow.
‘The Governor has expressed his displeasure on complicity and alleged connivance of the police in matters of crime, particularly campus crimes,’ a statement from the Governor's House reportedly said.
Further in a video message he said that the crime ‘shames the whole of Bengal, shames India.. and humanity.’
Expanding further he said: ‘We have seen incidents women being attacked on street, disrobing... Flogging on the street... public flogging. All this is repeatedly happening on the streets of Bengal.’
Quoting a poem by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, he asked whether it was this place where Rabindranath Tagore said, 'where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.’
The Governor’s office further said Ananda Bose ‘deplores the absolute failure of the Kolkata Police in handling the case in a just and fair manner’.
Nevertheless the Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the probe in the case, the protests in Bengal are still continuing often spilling over the state's borders and spreading across the country.