Are You Virgin? Bihar’s Medical College Asks Women Employees To Declare

Bizarre as it may sound, Bihar's Indira Gandhi Institute Of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) affiliated to Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Science University, Patna, asked its women employees to declare whether they are virgin (or not).

The college that offers MBBS and nursing courses has issued a notice to all its employees including teaching and non-teaching staff asking them to declare their marital status for certain administrative purpose.

For men, the administration has asked them to declare whether they are bachelors or widowers or married.

The women are asked to declare whether they are virgin or married to a person who has no other wife living or someone who has more than one wife.

Besides asking women employees such private details which amounts to outraging their modesty, one of the premier government medical colleges in the country seems to be ignorant that having two wives is bigamy and is an offense under IPC.