Kolkata doctor rape-murder: CBI takes accused in custody; massive ‘Reclaim the Night’ protest tonight.

Kolkata doctor rape-murder: A CBI team will visit the RG Kar Medical Hospital’s seminar hall where the body of the trainee doctor was found. Kolkata doctor rape-murder updates: Men, women, political leaders, and celebrities in West Bengal are set to take to the streets, intersections, and main roads in a massive protest against the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday evening, on the eve of the 78th Independence Day. The protest comes even as a team of senior Central Bureau of Investigation officers, who reached Kolkata on Wednesday morning, began its investigation into the incident. The CBI team, which comprises medical and forensic experts, will visit the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s seminar hall where the body of the trainee doctor was found on August 9. Three groups of CBI officers have been formed to investigate the matter, a central agency official said. The protesters will take to the streets in at least 45 locations across Bengal at midnight on Wednesday, The Telegraph reported. According to the organisers in several districts, they will start gathering late on Wednesday night and the protests will continue after midnight on Independence Day, demanding freedom for Bengal’s women, it added. A social media campaign has been urging people from all walks of life to join the protest, which is being described as ‘For women’s independence on the midnight of Independence,’ with participants encouraged to hold candles and blow conch shells, The Indian Express reported. Details about gathering locations—from various parts of Kolkata to other towns across Bengal—are being widely shared. Slogans such as “Justice for RG Kar”, “The Night is Ours”, “Reclaim the Night”, “Meyera Raat er Dhokhol Koro (Women seize the night)”, and “Meyera Raat er Dokhol Nao… Sankha Dhonite Bhoriye Dao (Women seize the night… fill it with the sound of conch shells)” are also circulating on WhatsApp, the IE report added. As messages about the event have been spreading on WhatsApp and other social media platforms since Wednesday morning, leaders from both the ruling and opposition parties have expressed their intent to join this unprecedented, and so far apolitical, movement in the streets.