The rape and brutal murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata has sparked widespread outarge acroos the country. The flip flop statements made by the police prompted Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday, August 11 to press for the CBI inquiry into the rape and murder of a woman doctor at a medical college in Kolkata as the Police had initially labelled the case as a suicide before changing it to a murder case.
“It is a very shameful incident. The inquiry should be conducted properly. We demand a CBI inquiry because the police first said that it was a case of suicide and then said that it was a murder case. The accused they have arrested is also a part of the police administration,” he said.
The post-graduate trainee doctor was found raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
The tragic incident has led to widespread outrage and protests. The Federation of Resident Doctors Associations (FORDA) has called for a nationwide halt of elective services, including OPD, wards, and elective OT’s, in hospitals on August 12 to support the residents of RG Kar Medical College. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, and Maulana Azad Medical College will suspend elective services in solidarity.
The tragic incident has ignited a political storm in West Bengal. On August 10, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee proposed introducing an ordinance or bill for expedited rape trials, criticizing the politicization of the issue.
On Saturday, August 10, a group of doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh, held a candlelight march on Saturday evening to protest the death of a female post-graduate trainee (PGT) at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal’s Kolkata.
Similarly, doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi also protested, demanding a CBI inquiry into the incident. Protesters carried posters and chanted slogans such as, “We want a CBI inquiry.”
Congress workers in Kolkata also took out a protest rally for justice on Saturday.
Earlier, BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul and Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, had called for a CBI investigation in the RG Kar Medical College incident. (With inputs from ANI)
