Mar 19, 2025 10:56 PM IST
The transfer follows complaints by the household of the physician who was killed in August final yr that they’d not been given their daughter’s demise certificates
KOLKATA: West Bengal well being secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam on Wednesday met the mother and father of the trainee physician who was raped and killed in RG Kar Medical School and Hospital final yr and handed over their daughter’s demise certificates.
Members of Joint Platforms of Docs and Abhaya Mancha stage a silent protest rally from School avenue demand justice for the RG Kar sufferer on her birthday in Kolkata, on February 9 (Hindustan Occasions)
The transfer follows complaints by the trainee physician’s household that they’d not been given their daughter’s demise certificates.
“We had been running from pillar to post for the death certificate of our daughter. Finally, we got it today. The health secretary came and gave us the certificate. We have been making rounds of the municipality borough office, the health department and the hospital all these days,” the physician’s father informed reporters on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old trainee physician was raped and murdered by a civic volunteer of the Kolkata Police within the early hours of August 9, 2024 contained in the seminar room of the hospital.
On January 20 this yr, extra district and classes choose Anirban Das on the Sealdah court docket sentenced the civic volunteer Sanjay Roy to imprisonment for the remainder of his life.
The physician’s household had beforehand criticised the forms for not releasing the demise certificates. “We don’t know what took it so long for the authorities to hand over the death certificate. We asked the health secretary but didn’t get any satisfactory answer,” the sufferer’s father stated.
Requested concerning the delay, the well being secretary declined to remark.
The physician’s mother and father had earlier moved the Supreme Court docket to hunt an in-depth probe into the case however the prime court docket on March 17 informed the household to strategy the Calcutta excessive court docket.
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