Mangalore, Jan 3: Students from various medical colleges across the city held a candlelight vigil at Nehru Maidan on Wednesday demanding for justice to the victim of the Delhi gang-rape incident who succumbed to her injuries last week in Singapore.
Most of those who took part in the hour-long vigil were in view that the rapists ought to be hanged without mercy. The students felt that the brutal gang-rape had shaken the entire nation and woken it from its slumber.
Vivek Shenoy, a male student from a Nursing College in the city said that the entire system was flawed and filled with several loopholes. The culprits must not be allowed to escape from punishment, but neither should they be subjected to chemical castration. The mindset of the people should change rather than opting for harsh treatment, he said.
Rachana, another female student pursuing physiotherapy said that instances of rape continued to occur in the country, regardless of all the protests and demonstrations the nation saw in the past few days. The incident has sparked anger and fury in the people across various parts of the country, but to what use? There should be a strict legal stance on rape, and the culprits in this crime must be severely punished. Only then can rape cases will be seen less, she said.
Her friend Amritha said that the victim 'Amanat' had been brave in her struggle to survive. “We must not let her death go in vain. No girl should experience what she went through. Inspite of being accompanied by a male friend, she was brutally tortured. The perperators of such a heinous crime should not be allowed to live,” she demanded.
Hundreds of paramedical students, lecturers and many others from different colleges poured into the maidan as a mark of protest against the Delhi issue, and showing their solidarity with the two victims of the incident.
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