Kolkata Rape-Murder : Bengali doctors have said that they will not stop working in protest of the rape and death of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical Hospital in Kolkata. Even though the Supreme Court gave them until Tuesday, September 10, at 5 p.m., to resume their jobs, junior physicians in West Bengal have said that they would not stop their “cease work” in order to demand justice for the trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was raped and murdered. The Bengal division of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) expressed its dismay at the Supreme Court’s decision to order the protesting physicians on Monday.
In the meantime, protests were held around Kolkata as part of the “9-9-9” event, in which participants gathered for nine minutes on Monday night at nine o’clock in the evening to call for justice for the RG Kar hospital doctor.
Aside from Bally and Mandirtala in the nearby town of Howrah, hundreds of people congregated for nine minutes at the Shyambazar, Esplanade, New Town, Jadavpur 8B terminus, singing the national song.
Ten updates on the rape-murder case of a doctor in Kolkata
- In order to prevent retaliation from the West Bengal government, the Supreme Court ordered the striking medics to return to work by Tuesday at 5 p.m. The West Bengal administration promised the court that no action would be taken against the protesting doctors, including punitive transfers, if they.
- The striking physicians announced that on Tuesday at noon, they will stage a demonstration outside “Swasthya Bhavan,” the state’s health department’s headquarters in Salt Lake, calling for the resignation of the director of health education and the state’s health secretary.
- “We are not getting what we want, and the victim is not getting justice. We’ll keep up the “cease work” and our agitation. We demand the resignation of DHE and the health secretary. We will have a demonstration at Swasthya Bhavan tomorrow afternoon, a disgruntled doctor told the news agency PTI following their meeting with the governing body in Kolkata.
- The West Bengal government and the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is looking into the matter, were criticized in a statement by the IMA Bengal state section for allegedly not doing enough to protect the trainee doctor’s rights and take action against the health syndicate.
- Additionally, according to the IMA, demonstrations “won’t die down” and “become more stronger” until a resolution was found.
- “We are really discouraged by the court and CBI’s actions. Nothing was done to ensure that our colleague received justice quickly through trial. The junior doctors, who are the leaders of this protest, have been directed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court to return to work by 5 p.m. tomorrow. This has even further disappointed us,” the IMA stated in the.
- The ruling Trinamool Congress praised the Supreme Court’s order for West Bengal’s striking physicians to return to work, arguing that doctors’ primary responsibility is to save lives and that this commitment cannot be broken.
- Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, has come under fire from the mother of the deceased trainee doctor for allegedly lying when she said that no money would be given. She denied the CM’s assertion on Monday, saying Mamata Banerjee did make a financial offer after her daughter’s untimely death. “Liarry is the Chief Minister.
- My daughter is not coming back. If I were to lie in her name? In addition to promising us money, the chief minister advised us to make a memorial for our daughter. In response, I said I would visit her workplace to pick up the.
- According to PTI, the CBI stated during a Supreme Court hearing on Monday that it had chosen to submit samples to AIIMS for additional research and expressed doubts over the postgraduate medic’s forensic report.
- In an appearance before a bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta of the CBI stated that the medical report indicated the death was homicidal and that there was evidence of forced penetration and sexual assault.
