Kolkata: The ongoing stir by doctors in West Bengal intensified with more senior doctors in various government-run medical institutions tendering mass resignation in support of the junior doctors’ protest in Kolkata. The doctors are seeking justice in the gruesome rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Meanwhile, a late-night meeting between the state government and agitating junior doctors failed to resolve the impasse.
The state chief secretary Manoj Pant invited a delegation of “eight to ten” junior doctors for talks with the state task force at the Swasthya Bhavan. The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 7.45 pm, commenced around 9.45 pm. A delegation of 29 junior doctors went to attend the meeting chaired by the chief secretary and also attended by state’s home secretary, director general of police (DGP) and members of a recently constituted state-level grievance redressal committee. However, it failed to break ice between the agitating junior doctors and the state government.
The development comes a day after around 50 senior doctors of RG Kar Hospital resigned en masse on Tuesday. The mass resignation, according to doctors, did not hamper healthcare services at various hospitals and medical colleges.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has listed 11 pieces of evidence in its charge sheet against the accused in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, Sanjay Roy.
Earlier on Tuesday, the CBI had submitted the chargesheet at a special court in Sealdah. It charged Sanjoy Roy, who used to work with Kolkata Police as a contractual staff, with the rape and murder of the on-duty woman doctor. The statements of about 200 people were recorded in the chargesheet.
The agency also ruled out the possibility of gang rape. The agency has found his DNA on the body of the victim. They also found his hair on the crime scene. There were injuries on the man’s body and blood stains of the victim on his clothes.
The CCTV footage and his mobile phone’s location verified his presence on the crime scene, said the agency in the document.
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