Women protest at Raja Bazar in Kolkata demanding justice for rape and murder victim RG Kar

Calcutta (West Bengal) [India]September 9 (ANI): Several women staged a protest rally in Kolkata’s Raja Bazar area on Sunday against the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case and demanded justice for the victim.

A huge crowd gathered at bus stop 8B in Jadavpur to protest against the incident and demand justice for the victim.

In Kolkata, people from all walks of life gathered on Sunday to protest against the rape and murder incidents in Kolkata by forming a human chain.

The brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has sparked widespread protests in West Bengal and across the country. The victim was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.

In Tollygunge, artists and technicians from the Bengali film industry held a protest march and demanded justice for the victim.

In Siliguri, doctors, activists and local citizens formed a human chain to protest on Sunday.

Earlier today, sculptors from Kumartuli, people carrying torches, BJP workers and rickshaw pullers took to the streets separately to protest against the rape and murder incident. Remarkably, the protest has been going on for almost a month.

Dr Tapas Pramanik, who was on duty at the emergency department of RG Kar Medical College on August 9, told ANI that he hoped that the investigating agency would submit a transparent report leading to the death penalty in the RG Kar rape and murder case currently pending before the Supreme Court.

“We hope that we get a verdict, that the investigating agency submits a report maintaining transparency and accountability of the perpetrator and that there is death penalty on that basis… We also hope that action is taken against those doctors who are seen in videos tampering with evidence… Those behind the vandalism should be punished,” Pramanik told ANI.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case on September 9.

In a related development, BJP MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato on Sunday wrote a letter to the ED director demanding an investigation and arrest of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in connection with the Sandip Ghosh health scandals and the RG Kar case.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offering his resignation from his post as MP.

“I have been suffering patiently for a month since the horrific incident at RG Kar Hospital and was hoping for your direct intervention with the agitating junior doctors, in the old Mamata Banerjee style. It has not happened, whatever punitive action the government is taking now, it is too late. I think normalcy could have been restored in this state much earlier if the gathering of corrupt doctors had been broken up and those guilty of improper administrative action had been punished immediately after the scandalous incident,” the letter said.

The incident sparked a war of words between the BJP and the state government, with the BJP demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

On Thursday, the victim’s family accused the Kolkata police of trying to offer them money while they mourned the remains of their daughter.

Sanjay Roy, a volunteer at G Kar Medical College and Hospital, was arrested in connection with the incident.

On September 2, the Anti-Corruption Wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr. Sandip Ghosh and three others for alleged corruption and financial malpractice at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been remanded in police custody for eight days. The next hearing in the case will be held on September 10.

On September 3, amid protests against the Kolkata rape and murder case, the West Bengal Assembly unanimously passed the Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment), 2024.

The bill introduces the death penalty or life imprisonment for rape by amending the relevant sections of the new penal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

On September 6, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose referred the Aparajita Bill to President Droupadi Murmu for consideration. (ANI)