Mangalore: Physiotherapy Students Demand Death Penalty to Rapists

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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (DV)

Mangalore, Dec 28: The Indian Association of Physiotherapists on Thursday December 27 staged a protest against the gruesome Delhi gang-rape of a physiotherapy student and other rape cases reported in the country and demanded justice for the victims.

Students from various physiotherapy colleges joined the protest rally from Ambedkar circle to DC office and raised slogans against the inhuman rape on girls.

The students shouted slogans demanding capital punishment to the rapists.

Addressing the gathering, Ritu Chauhan, PG student in MV Shetty College of Physiotherapy  urged that the rapists should be given stringent punishment and they should be hanged immediately. "Justice delayed is justice denied," she said.

She also added that in the present day, women cannot walk on streets or be in buses because each second they are harassed, molested and raped.

"Why it is happening to women? Don’t we have the right to live freely in society? We have gathered here today to protest peacefully with the hope of getting justice. This should not continue in the future anywhere," she urged.

Dr Meryl demanded that the rapists should be hanged immediately and the law should be amended so that such incidents do not repeat.

Speaking to Daijiworld, Dr Umashanker Mohanthy, president of Indian Association of Physiotherapists said that the association staged protests in 19 places in various states simultaneously condemning the heinous Delhi gang-rape. He also said that the culprits of rape should be chemically castrated and hanged immediately. 

A memorandum was also submitted to the DC demanding death and stringent punishment to the perpetrators of crime against women in the rarest of rare cases.

Dr U T Ifthikar Ali, academic council member of RGUHS, and Dr Mohammad Suhail, senate member of RGUHS were present during the protest.