Actor-politician Mimi Chakraborty, who has come out with a series of X posts expressing support for the ongoing protests demanding justice for the doctor who was raped and killed at Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, has been receiving rape threats for backing the protests.
The former Trinamool Congress MP took to X to share screenshots of the online rape threats that she received and sought to know what education and upbringing permitted such acts.
A former MP receives rape threats! Alarming reminder of women’s vulnerability, wrote TMC leader Nilanjan Das in response to her tweet, and urged Kolkata police to look into such threats.
Mimi Chakraborty has been regularly posting visuals of the protests in the state on X.
“Punishment should be such that next time even thinking of a heinous crime like this gives you shiver down the spine,” she had said in one of her posts.
Several other actors like Arindam Sil, Madhumita Sarcar, and Riddhi Sen too had extended support to the protesters who have been demanding justice for the victim.
Mimi Chakraborty, popular for movies like Crisscross, Posto and Proloy, made her political entry in 2019 and won the Lok Sabha polls from the Jadavpur constituency on a TMC ticket.
The postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered in R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, triggering protests and outrage across the nation. A civic volunteer was arrested in connection with the case the next day.
