Nearly a month after the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor inside the seminar hall of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College, the victim’s parents alleged that the Kolkata Police attempted to suppress the case by hurriedly cremating the doctor’s body.
While protesting outside the medical college, where their daughter’s body was discovered on August 9, the parents demanded justice and leveled allegations against a senior police officer for attempting to bribe them after the incident came to light.
“The police, from the very beginning, tried to hush up the case. We were not allowed to see the body and had to wait at the police station while the body was taken for post-mortem examinations. Later, when the body was handed over to us, a senior police official offered us money, which we immediately declined,” the father of the deceased doctor said, PTI reported.
In the second week of August, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the case to the CBI.
The parents of the victim have joined the protest to support the junior doctors fighting for justice for their daughter. Since August 10, protests have erupted across the state, with people from various sectors demanding justice for the victim.
On Monday, the CBI arrested the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, in connection with alleged financial misconduct at the establishment.
On Tuesday, the West Bengal Assembly unanimously passed a state anti-rape bill seeking capital punishment for rape convicts if their actions result in the victim’s death or leave her in a vegetative state, and a life sentence without parole for other perpetrators.