KOLKATA: In response to the horrific rape and murder of a female trainee doctor, Indian police used water cannon and tear gas to scatter hundreds of demonstrators who were marching through the eastern city of Kolkata on Tuesday. The demonstrators were demanding the resignation of a prominent state minister.
Television footage showed protesters led by university students smashing through iron barricades erected along their march route to the West Bengal state headquarters. The police, who had earlier deemed the demonstration unlawful, responded with a baton charge.
Similar to the massive demonstrations that followed the 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi on a moving bus, the August 9 attack on the 31-year-old doctor has incited fury across the country, with activists claiming that women
