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The rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor has sent shockwaves through West Bengal, leading to widespread protests in Kolkata demanding justice for the victim. (File photo/PTI)
Former Principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh and SHO Abhijit Mondal will be produced in the court today.
Amid the protest by the junior doctors outside the West Bengal Health Department headquarters in Kolkata that entered its sixth day on Sunday, former Principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh and Station House Officer (SHO) of Tala Police Station Abhijit Mondal will be produced in the court today after their arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case on September 14.
In the case filed against the two arrested, the probe agency has charged them for the delay in filing the FIR and tampering with evidence in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at the state-run health facility on August 9.
In a separate case related to the alleged financial irregularities in the RG Kar hospital, Ghosh was already under CBI custody and underwent a polygraph test.
The body of the 31-year-old trainee doctor was found in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata on August 9. The autopsy report suggested that she was brutally raped before being murdered. During the initial probe, the Kolkata Police arrested a civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, who admitted to the crime.
Doctors to Hold Mega Protest Rally
Amid the deadlock between the protesting junior doctors and the Mamata Banerjee-led state government, the medics associated with the state-run health facilities have called for a mega rally from Saltlake Central Park to State Health Department headquarters today, September, 15.
#WATCH | RG Kar Medical College & Hospital rape-murder incident | Junior doctors continue their protest for the fifth consecutive night at Swasthya Bhawan, in the Salt Lake area of West Bengal’s Kolkata. pic.twitter.com/m3AtnhtkCY— ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2024
It comes after another round of much-anticipated talks between the agitating doctors and the state government failed to take place on Saturday. The delegation of doctors went to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat and had to return without the meeting taking place as they demanded for a videographer in the meeting for the purpose of live-streaming.