KOLKATA: A trial court is set to deliver the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder verdict on January 18, more than five months after a 31-year-old junior doctor was violated and brutally killed in the state government-run institute, setting off a wave of protests in Kolkata, ripples of which were felt around the country.CBI,…
NEW DELHI: The parents of the doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital expressed disappointment on Friday over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s handling of the case. They said they were heartbroken after a Kolkata court granted bail to two key suspects in the case, describing it as…
Members of Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front and others take part in a mega rally on ‘Mahalaya’ to demand justice for the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A protest march was organised by the Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front…
Junior doctors take out a torch rally in Kolkata on Sunday. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have resumed their indefinite strike demanding better safety and security at medical facilities. The strike, which began on October 1, follows an earlier partial return to work on September 21 after a 42-day protest. The…
NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that the state of Maharashtra should also advocate for an anti-rape bill similar to the one passed by West Bengal assembly, which seeks capital punishment for rape convicts, adding that the party will “highlight this point in the poll manifesto as well.”“Maharashtra should consider replicating…
NEW DELHI: BJP Tuesday said the anti-rape legislation passed in Bengal assembly was brought by CM Mamata Banerjee to save herself from humiliation and divert attention from the heinous crime at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.Questioning why the Mamata govt did not bring the bill earlier, Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also…
NEW DELHI: Responding to Mamata Banerjee‘s letter to PM Modi, Union minister for women and child development Annapurna Devi said West Bengal CM gave “factually incorrect” information in “what appears to be” an attempt “to cover up the delay in operationalising Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs)”.Banerjee, first wrote to PM Modi on Aug 22 following…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Sunday raised concerns regarding the ongoing investigation into the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital case. He questioned the delay in the CBI’s actions saying that the only arrest in the case has been made by the Kolkata Police.“One arrest has been made and that too by…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
