Fresh controversy erupted at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital after a video purportedly showing a Group D employee consuming liquor and having a biryani party inside the hospital’s emergency department went viral on social media, triggering sharp reactions and raising fresh questions over discipline and security inside the institution.
Two youths were attacked near their homes in Polba, leaving one dead and another undergoing treatment. Police have arrested three persons in connection with the incident.
The parents of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year, have accused India’s premier investigative agency of failing to conduct a thorough probe and attempting to shield the “actual perpetrators,” intensifying scrutiny of the high-profile case that sparked nationwide outrage.
A day after an arrest warrant was issued against Akhtar Ali, former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, he appeared in court on Saturday.
Despite repeated court directives, junior doctor Aniket Mahato is yet to receive his posting at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Members of Abhaya Mancha, a doctors’ forum formed after last year’s rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, staged a protest rally outside the CBI office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Friday.
Nagorik Chetona, a civil society collective representing diverse backgrounds released an open letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee demanding safety and dignity of all women and trans-queer persons in Bengal.
CBI officials probing the financial scam at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital have traced crucial clues of the “influential nexus” of its former and controversial Principal Sandip Ghosh from his two mobile phones and two laptops.
The dharna by junior doctors in front of Swasthya Bhawan over the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, entered its fourth day on Friday.
During a suo-motu hearing of the case, the top court observed that "protest cannot be at the cost of duty."
