Protesters from Kamduni announced on Sunday that they will organise a march in the city on Tuesday to express their disappointment with Friday’s judgment on the Kamduni rape and murder case.
The march will start at 3pm from Victoria House and end at the Gandhi statue on the Maidan. Everyone is welcome to join, the protesters said at a news conference.
On June 7, 2013, a 21-year-old woman, a college student and a first generation learner from Kamduni, a village about 20km from Kolkata, had been picked up in daylight near her village, raped and murdered.
Friday’s judgment by a Calcutta High Court bench acquitted one of the accused, who had been awarded the death sentence by a lower court in the rape and murder case, of all charges.
The high court transmuted the death sentences of two to life sentences and reduced the life sentences of three to seven years. The protesters, who include the murdered girl’s family, had expected a stronger verdict against the accused. They have decided to appeal against the high court verdict at the Supreme Court.