90-year-old Maya Rani Chakrabortywas deeply affected when she learnt about the incident from her granddaughters and nieces.

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90-year-old Maya Rani Chakraborty She determinedly marched on, keeping pace with people half her age from Kolkata’s Joka marched three kilometre from her apartment complex to ESI Medical College and Hospital in Joka as part of the ‘Reclaim the Night’ protest — a gathering of thousands of men and women from the city who marched to protest the rape and murder of a woman doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.

Despite her age and although usually cut off from news sources, Chakraborty was deeply affected when she learnt about the incident from her granddaughters and nieces. So, when posters came up around the city announcing a protest march, she decided to join, she said.

The incident “broke something inside” of her, she said. She also worries about the safety of women in her family. “I cried when I heard about it,” she said, while her family said her blood pressure shot up that day. “Where are we headed as a society? I never imagined something like this could happen in the civilised world. There is no safety and I’m worried about future generations.”

Govt should bring a stringent law that rape and murder the person should be immediately hanged to death.