Cover up started immediately.

India is famous all over the world. In the night of 8 August, a post graduate doctor at RG Kar Medical College was raped and murdered in a seminar hall where she was resting. DH. Within hours Kolkata Police had arrested 31 year old civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy and he apparently confessed to the crime. It is too early to tell whether he is actually guilty or whether he is being used as a red herring (wikipedia). Retraction of confession is common in India (legal Service India) because it takes so long for any case to come to court that all evidence has been destroyed by then and witnesses threatened into silence. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), attacks of rape "peaked at nearly 39,000 in 2016." "There were more than 31,000 reported rapes in 2022." "Conviction rates for rape ranged between 27%-28% from 2018-2022." The Print. According to the autopsy report, the doctor in Kolkata was raped by more than one person, "subjected to genital torture due to 'perverted sexuality', and died due to suffocation. HT. Cover up started immediately. Next morning the family was informed by telephone that the doctor had died by suicide and was made to wait for over three hours before being allowed to see the body. Mint. The Indian Medical Association has announced a withdrawal of medical services for 24 hours on 17 August to protest against the rape. HT. "Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal state marched through the streets on Wednesday (14 August) night." "The Reclaim the Night March was the culmination of nearly a week of frenzied protests ignited by the brutal killing of the 31-year-old at the RG Kar Medical College." BBC. In an act of brazen defiance around 5,000 goons entered RG Kar in the night of 14 August to threaten the protesters and vandalize the site of the incident in an attempt to destroy all evidence. Police stood by as observers. Quint. This was a response to the High Court order, transferring the case to the Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) immediately, thus overriding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's six-day deadline to Kolkata Police to solve the case. NDTV. In July, Ms Banerjee said that she will "give shelter" to all Bangladeshis in her state although immigration and border security are the Center's responsibility. ET. Total breakdown of law and order, mobs terrorizing people with impunity and blatant disregard for national security should be valid reasons for imposing President's Rule in West Bengal. Legal Service India. The problem is that the Union government is in the hands of the BJP. As is the state of Uttar Pradesh where a 19 year old Dalit woman was raped and murdered by four upper caste men in Hathras on 14 September 2020. The police actively destroyed evidence including burning the victim's body in the middle of the night while forcibly preventing the family from attending. Three of the four villains have walked free while the fourth has been convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter. wikipedia. Haryana is also ruled by the BJP where Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim, convicted of rape and murder, has been released from prison for the eighth time for a 21-day furlough. BT. In 2022, the Union government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the eleven men, convicted of gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of 14 members of her family including her 3 year old daughter, on Independence Day. BBC. Politicians are expert at 'jumla', meaning an empty promise (Mint), but this would be a case of a jet black pot calling the kettle black (wikipedia). Hence the paralysis.