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Bengal Junior Docs Allege Police Attrocities, Stage Night-Long Sit-In Even After Calling Off Cease-Work Stir

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OB Bureau

Kolkata: Even after calling off their ‘total cease work’ agitation on Friday evening, junior doctors continued their sit-in protest in central Kolkata throughout the night. They staged the sit-in to protest against alleged police atrocities. They alleged that police lathi-charged a few of them during a rally to press for justice for the 31-year-old trainee doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who was brutally raped and murder in August.

The junior doctors had called off their ‘total cease work’ at state-run medical colleges and hospitals around 8.30 pm on Friday. However, they had threatened to launch a hunger strike till death if their demands were not met by the state government within 24 hours.

The agitating doctors held clocks in their hands and reiterated their demands, including the directive to form a central inquiry committee for disciplinary proceedings against alleged perpetrators involved in ‘threat culture’ in all medical colleges of the state.

Kolkata rape-murder & graft in med colleges probe so far

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested TMC youth leader Ashish Pandey, a doctor, who is associated with RG Kar Hopsital, on Thursday, He was arrested in connection with a financial irregularities case of the institution.

On September 2, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, was arrested by the CBI in a graft case. Three others – vendors Biplav Singha (52) and Sumon Hazra (46), and Afsar Ali Khan, who provided additional security to Ghosh, were also arrested in the graft case.

The CBI has also arrested Ghosh and Abhijit Mondol, an inspector at Tala police station, in connection with the rape and murder. The central probe agency has alleged that both were involved in disturbing the crime scene and tampering with evidence.

 

OB Bureau

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