Kolkata Homicide-Rape Case: 9 individuals have been arrested following an outbreak of violence at RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in Kolkata early Thursday morning. The violence occurred throughout a protest towards the horrific rape and homicide of a trainee physician on the hospital the earlier week.
The incident started late Wednesday evening when a vigil titled “Ladies, Reclaim the Night time” was organized by ladies in Kolkata and throughout the nation. Through the vigil, which began round 11 PM, a bunch of individuals entered the hospital premises and started vandalizing property. Automobiles had been attacked, public property was broken, and the police needed to resort to lathicharge and teargas to manage the state of affairs. Fifteen policemen had been reported injured.
Pronoy Das, a safety guard on the hospital, who was on responsibility when the incident passed off, stated, “Round 1 am final evening when about 500-1,000 individuals got here right here. We locked the gate right here, however they broke it down. We went to a different gate, however they broke down that too. They had been too many, we had been 10-12 individuals and the Police. So we had been no match. They barged in and vandalised the property. They’ve broken every little thing, from computer systems to medicines. They broken even the CCTV cameras.”
On Thursday morning, the Kolkata Police launched images of people believed to have participated within the mob and sought info on them. The images had been shared on social media, with the faces of the suspected vandals circled. The arrests had been introduced later within the day. Though the identities of these arrested haven’t been disclosed, Dr. Anubhav Mondal, a protester on the hospital, acknowledged that he was amongst these circled within the images.
“Our protests will proceed and develop stronger. Those that assume they’ll intimidate us will fail. We demand justice at any price, with a impartial investigation monitored by the court docket,” Dr. Mondal informed NDTV. In the meantime, the Kolkata Police dismissed claims circulating on social media that the seminar corridor, the place the trainee physician was raped and murdered, was additionally vandalized. The police warned towards spreading unverified info, stating, “The crime scene is the seminar room, and it has not been touched. Do not unfold unverified information. We’ll take authorized motion towards these spreading rumors,” they posted on X.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose visited the hospital on Thursday, providing assist to the docs and medical college students who expressed feeling insecure and traumatized following the incidents. “I’m with you. We’ll struggle this and never permit such ghastly acts. We’ll take exemplary motion,” the governor assured the docs.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the investigation into the rape and homicide on Tuesday, has met with the household of the sufferer. The physique of the trainee physician was found final Friday, and an post-mortem revealed a number of accidents had been inflicted on her earlier than she was smothered to dying, with the time of dying estimated between three and 5 AM. The police have already arrested a civic volunteer, Sanjoy Roy, who’s now in CBI custody.
The sufferer’s mother and father have knowledgeable the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom that proof signifies she was gang-raped, as 150 mg of semen was discovered on her physique. “No motion has been taken to arrest different suspects, regardless of proof clearly indicating that this was a gang rape and homicide that would not have been dedicated by one individual alone,” the mother and father acknowledged of their petition.
