NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor on Wednesday alleged the state government led by CM Mamata Banerjee of ‘failing’ to carry out its duties in the RG Kar incident and urged the state to own up for its fallout. The governor, who has often been at loggerheads with Banerjee also took a veiled dig at the…
Kolkata police halts junior doctors’ ‘Abhaya Parikrama’ rally from visiting Durga puja pandals Kolkata police halted junior doctors‘ ‘Abhaya Parikrama‘ rally at major pandals during the Durga Puja, the biggest festival in the state where people have already started hitting the streets for pandal hopping. The junior doctors have planned a “Abhaya Parikrama” rally in…
KOLKATA: Kolkata police initiated an inquiry on Saturday against the officer-in-charge of Lake police station in the city, two senior male officers, and three women officers following criticism from Calcutta high court the day before over a flawed investigation into a rape complaint by the wife of a senior govt official posted outside Bengal.The complaint…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, on Thursday, said that he will socially boycott chief minister Mamata Banerjee and will not appear with her at any public events in view of people’s outcry over the RG Kar hospital impasse.“I will not be sharing any public platform with the chief minister. I will take proactive steps…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday expressed his deep concern over the information shared by the victim’s parents. The parents have provided written details to the governor, which he has discussed with the home minister. Within a short span of two days, action has been initiated in response to their grievances…
KOLKATA: A man dressed in a red T-shirt in a leaked video of the crime scene on Aug 9 that went public on Friday and led to clarification from police sparked a fierce row with the state chapter of Indian Medical Association claiming the man in red to be a member of the infamous “North…
KOLKATA: A team of CISF officers, led by the IG and DIG, conducted a recce of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) and held multiple meetings with hospital officials and the city’s top cops as they prepared to join duty with Kolkata Police to manage security on the hospital premises. The force’s visit came…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday tore into Kolkata police for letting a 7,000-strong mob vandalise R G Kar hospital early on August 15, storm the resident doctors‘ hostel and threaten female doctors with dire consequences if they opened their mouths about the rape-murder of their colleague.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta high court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken to the cops about this. The state told the HC that no coercive action would be…
KOLKATA: Amid ongoing protests against the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the police have imposed Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. This measure, effective from Sunday, 18 August for seven days, restricts rallies, meetings, processions and the assembly of five…
