Kolkata: The West Bengal Medical Council has requested Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital to state whether or not Kinjal Nanda, one of many outstanding faces of the motion following the August 9, 2024, rape and homicide of a post-graduate trainee physician on campus, has been skipping courses and obligation, officers stated.
A postgraduate trainee physician was raped and murdered on the RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9, 2024. (PTI File Photograph)
“The Council has sent a letter to the hospital asking the administration to state in seven days whether Nanda’s attendance at classes and the hospital wards met the mandatory requirement of 80% and whether he frequently took leave,” a well being division official stated, requesting anonymity.
Dr Kausik Biswas, a member of the Council, advised the media on Saturday that there’s nothing irregular in regards to the inquiry.
“Post-graduate students have to undergo full-time training. So, the inquiry is valid if there is a reason to initiate one,” he stated.
The Council made the transfer days after the state police initiated a probe towards Asfaqullah Naiya, one other trainee physician from the identical hospital and likewise a face of the motion, based mostly on an allegation that he was wrongly described as an MD (physician of drugs) in a pamphlet launched by organisers of a well being camp in Hooghly district final yr.
Claiming that the camp provided free service and he didn’t print any pamphlet, Naiya moved the Calcutta excessive courtroom, alleging harassment by the state. His petition is being heard by the courtroom.
Nanda, who can be an newbie actor, argued that he has the liberty to pursue private pursuits past obligation hours.
“I welcome the inquiry but what I do in my personal time is entirely my business. When the police made the move against Naiya, we knew more doctors would be targeted,” stated Nanda.
Again-to-back inquiry towards two junior docs – who led the motion and even held conferences with chief minister Mamata Banerjee alongside their fellow agitators – have triggered allegations of political vendetta by the ruling Trinamool Congress.
“The chief minister is nurturing vengeance against those who speak against her. These are revengeful actions” Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)’s Bengal unit normal secretary Agnimitra Paul stated.
Mother and father of the rape and homicide sufferer have all the time stood by the junior docs who demanded justice for his or her daughter throughout a five-month motion on the streets of Bengal.
“Their agitation will intensify if the government targets them. Being in charge of the health department, the chief minister should accept her responsibility and resign,” stated the sufferer’s father.
Additionally from RG Kar Hospital, Aniket Mahato, a 3rd outstanding face of the junior docs’ motion, alleged that the state is attempting to create concern within the medical fraternity.
“We will hit the streets again if the government continues to create fear among doctors,” Mahato stated.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) state normal secretary Kunal Ghosh claimed that the allegations of vengeance are baseless.
Ghosh stated: “A section of junior doctors had alleged that some members of their fraternity used the agitation as a platform for professional gain. They said some of their colleagues do not attend duty. The inquiry is a government affair and has nothing to do with politics.”
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which probed the August 9, 2024 crime, has filed an enchantment on the Calcutta excessive courtroom looking for demise penalty for Sanjay Roy, the one suspect to be convicted up to now.
The protesters and the sufferer’s household are talking towards the CBI because it has not but framed costs towards Dr Sandip Ghosh, the previous principal of RG Kar Medical Faculty, and Abhijit Mondal, the native Tala police station’s former officer-in-charge. Each have been arrested by CBI on September 14 and charged with tampering of proof. Ghosh can be dealing with investigation in a separate case regarding monetary corruption on the hospital. Each have been granted bail on December 13.
Roy, 34, a civic volunteer who labored for Kolkata police through the crime, was sentenced to jail for remainder of life below Sections 66 (rape), 64 (inflicting harm leading to demise) and 103 (1) (homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) by Kolkata’s Sealdah courtroom on January 18.
The TMC authorities moved the Calcutta excessive courtroom division bench of justice Debangsu Basak and justice Md Shabbar Rashidi on January 21, looking for capital punishment for Roy. The CBI against the Bengal authorities’s enchantment saying solely the probe company can problem the trial’s courtroom’s resolution.
The division bench is scheduled to listen to the CBI’s enchantment on January 27.