Kolkata Rape-Homicide Case: In a stunning flip of occasions, the household of a health care provider who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical School in Kolkata final month has accused the Kolkata Police of making an attempt to cowl up the case. Throughout a protest on the state-run hospital, the physician’s dad and mom revealed that police officers hurriedly cremated the physique and even tried to bribe them to maintain quiet. These explosive accusations have added gasoline to the continued protests throughout West Bengal, with medics and the general public demanding justice for the sufferer.
Relations of a health care provider joined the protesting medics at RG Kar hospital on Wednesday and accused the Kolkata Police of making an attempt to suppress the case by hurriedly cremating the physique of the physician. Collaborating within the protests on the state-run RG Kar Medical School and Hospital, the place the physique of their daughter was recovered on August 9, the dad and mom demanded justice and accused a senior police officer of attempting to bribe them after the incident got here to gentle.
“The police, from the very starting, tried to hush up the case. We weren’t allowed to see the physique and needed to wait on the police station whereas the physique was taken for autopsy examinations. Later, when the physique was handed over to us, a senior police official supplied us cash, which we instantly declined,” the daddy of the deceased physician stated.
The Calcutta Excessive Court docket ordered the handover of the case to the CBI within the second week of August. The dad and mom of the postgraduate trainee acknowledged that they joined the protest to assist the junior medical doctors preventing for justice for his or her daughter.
Since August 10, protests have erupted throughout the state, with folks from numerous sectors demanding justice for the sufferer. On Monday, the CBI arrested the previous principal of RG Kar Medical School and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, in reference to alleged monetary misconduct on the institution.
On Tuesday, the West Bengal Meeting unanimously handed a state anti-rape invoice in search of capital punishment for rape convicts if their actions consequence within the sufferer’s dying or go away her in a vegetative state, and a life sentence with out parole for different perpetrators.
