NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court docket ordered on Tuesday the setting up of a nationwide process pressure of docs to make suggestions on security at their office, days after the rape and homicide of a 31-year-old trainee physician sparked nationwide protests.

The court docket additionally requested the federal police to submit a report on Thursday on the standing of its investigation into the Aug. 9 homicide of the trainee physician at a state-run hospital within the japanese metropolis of Kolkata.

Docs throughout the nation have held protests and refused to see non-emergency sufferers following the crime as a part of their motion demanding a safer office and a swift legal probe.

A police volunteer has been arrested and charged with the crime. Ladies activists say the incident has highlighted how ladies in India proceed to endure from sexual violence regardless of more durable legal guidelines introduced in after the 2012 gang-rape and homicide of a 23-year-old scholar on a shifting bus in New Delhi.