"Withdrawn Now": Himanta Sarma On Assam Hospital's 'Regressive' Advisory

The Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) said in the advisory that women doctors and students should "avoid situations where they are alone"

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has ordered the principal of a medical college to withdraw a an advisory to students seen as bizarre and regressive, amid the huge public outrage over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital.

 The Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) said in the advisory that women doctors and students should "avoid situations where they are alone".

"That advisory was not warranted. Yesterday, I spoke to the principal. They have withdrawn it," Mr Sarma told NDTV today.