By Ritika Jain On a seemingly ordinary August morning, advocate Astha Sharma woke to find the inbox to her LinkedIn and Instagram accounts inundated with hate mail. The Supreme Court had just begun hearing the RG Kar case—where a female doctor was found raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital earlier this year in August. Sharma, along with her colleagues, was representing the state of West Bengal and Kolkata police, though, a misguided online campaign had convinced the public that they were representing the accused and should face the wrath for it. The messages were chilling: “I curse them al…

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