A day after the two prime accused in the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital got bail, the Left and Congress on Saturday staged protest rallies at various locations in Kolkata and accused the CBI. Justice “failed” in case.
They also alleged a “tacit understanding” between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP-led Center in West Bengal.
The Congress took out a procession from the Rabindra Sadan area to the CBI office at the Nizam Palace in south Kolkata and criticized the Central Investigation Agency for its inability to frame charges against the two accused in the case.
During the procession, the Congress workers held the party flag and chanted slogans like ‘We want justice’, ‘We want justice in Vichar Chha Tilotto’.
Clashes broke out between the protesters and the police when the police stopped the Congress workers from entering the Nizam Palace.
Hundreds of people took part in a rally organized by the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front (WBJDF), from Karunamayi to the next CBI office in the CGO complex in the Salt Lake area, a distance of one kilometre.
On August 9, the Junior Doctors’ Forum took out a rally against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s delay in filing charges against all the ‘conspirators’ involved in the rape and murder of female doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The parents of the deceased doctor also participated in the rally.
“We will fight for justice and this is our right,” said the mother of the deceased doctor. The protestors carried placards that read ‘If the system fails, we will work for justice’.
In a separate rally, SUCI (Communist) activists marched from Karunamayi to the CGO complex in Salt Lake, while CPI(M)’s student body SFI took out a rally in the College Street area in the north. the city
Kolkata’s Sealdah court on Friday granted bail to Sandeep Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, ex-officer of Tala police station, in the case of rape and murder of a doctor on duty.
They were granted bail after the CBI failed to file the chargesheet within the mandatory 90 days.
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