Thousands of women across West Bengal marched in midnight as part of the second edition of the ‘Reclaim the Night’ campaign, demanding justice for a doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last month.
The campaign on Wednesday night, the second one after August 14, witnessed stray undesired incidents in which two persons were taken into custody by the police in separate spots of Kolkata for misbehaving with protesting women. In north Bengal’s Mathabhanga town, a protester was assaulted allegedly by members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement, largely driven by social media, gained momentum as protests kicked off at 11:30 pm, marking the second such gathering since a midnight campaign on August 14.