Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case: Mamata Banerjee And Doctors' Stand-Off Continues, Sandip Ghosh Arrested | Key Highlights

Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case: The deadlock between junior doctors and the West Bengal government continued on Saturday after the delegation of 15 junior doctors went to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and returned without any solution.

The junior doctors requested that the meeting be recorded and that they be provided with the recording afterward but the officials did not agree to this request.

On Saturday afternoon, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a surprise visit to Salt Lake to meet with the protesting doctors demanding justice for the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last month.

Here's The Update On The RG Kar Medical College & Hospital Rape-Murder Incident

The protest by doctors outside the state health department headquarters in Salt Lake, Kolkata continued into its fifth day on Saturday.

CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday made a surprise visit to meet Junior doctors who have been protesting outside the Swasthya Bhawan at Salt Lake.

 

#WATCH | RG Kar Medical College & Hospital rape-murder incident | Junior doctors continue their protest for the fifth consecutive night at Swasthya Bhawan, in the Salt Lake area of West Bengal's Kolkata. pic.twitter.com/m3AtnhtkCY — ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2024

Dr Aqeeb, who was part of the delegation that went to meet CM Mamata Banerjee, said that we had requested a live streaming of the meeting but they didn't agree to it.

 

#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal | Dr Aqeeb, who was part of the delegation that went to meet CM Mamata Banerjee, says, "...We were asked to come for an official dialogue at Kalighat, we went there - when we went there, we even compromised with our demand that the meeting be live… pic.twitter.com/0Iivi7vhUK — ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2024

 

Following the arrest of the ormer principal of RG Kar Collage and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, the protesting doctor said that he has been arrested and it shows that our demand was right. 

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested former RG Kar Medical College Principal Sandip Ghosh in connection with the rape-murder case of a trainee doctor.

The agency also arrested Abhijit Mondal, the officer in charge of Tala Police Station, for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of an on-duty woman medic at RG Kar Hospital, PTI reported.

"The policeman has been questioned eight times earlier and every time he gave different versions. He has been arrested and will be produced in the court tomorrow," the CBI officer said, according to PTI.