RG Kar Rape Murder Case: Nearly three months after the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, junior doctors on Friday (November 1, 2024) said they are not happy with the pace of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation into the incident. Are. Its doctors have announced to start a fresh movement.
The West Bengal Junior Doctors Forum is also dissatisfied with the CBI, because in the charge sheet filed before the Supreme Court in the doctor’s murder case, only one person has been made an accused, who was asked to take over the investigation on behalf of the CBI on the orders of the Calcutta High Court. Before the police had arrested him.
Forum spokesperson Debashish Halder said in a press conference being held at RG Kar Hospital, “We will take out a rally with members of civil society organizations from College Square to Esplanade on November 9. Similar rallies will also be held in different parts of West Bengal. “
call to light lamps
A mass conference will also be organized on November 9 at Rani Rasmani Avenue in the Esplanade area, in which justice will be demanded for the deceased. Halder said, “We are also calling for lighting lamps in every area of Bengal on November 4.”
He said junior doctors feel from media reports that the role of ‘other criminals’ has not been fully mentioned in the CBI charge sheet, which names only one person directly involved in the crime. Haldar asked, “Has the role of other arrested persons, including former principal (of RG Kar Hospital) Sandeep Ghosh, been thoroughly investigated?”
Trinamool Congress’s reaction
Expressing dissatisfaction over the pace of CBI investigation, Haldar said that junior doctors fear that such an investigation could lead to bail for the accused. Haldar said, “Why was such a routine investigation conducted? We want to know what action has been taken by the central agency against the top officials of the hospital and whether the investigators have spoken to the top officials of the health department.”
Politics heats up over movement
The ruling Trinamool Congress criticized the fresh agitation by junior doctors. Senior Trinamool MP Kalyan Bandyopadhyay claimed that the junior doctors’ movement lacks direction. He said, “It seems that the movement has been ‘hijacked’ by the CPI(M) as the junior doctors no longer have any concrete issue.”
He said that CBI is investigating the RG Kar incident and the matter is pending in the court. He asked, “What is the point of making programs one after another to cause inconvenience to the common man?”
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