Days after a trainee postgraduate doctor was brutally raped and murdered in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, tens of thousands of doctors and medical staff from across the country hit the streets on Saturday demanding justice for the victim.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), which announced the 24-hour nationwide strikes, clarified that essential services will be open for the patients while the Out Patient wards (OPD) will not be functioning during the 24-hour strikes.
As OPD services were hit with strikes across the country, Madhya Pradesh High Court directed protesting doctors in the state to call off their strike immediately, and return to work. Meanwhile, amid strikes in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to Union Minister JP Nadda and discussed bringing stringent law at the central level for the security of doctors.
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Amid nationwide protests after the Kolkata doctor’s rape-murder, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding his intervention in the demands of the doctors.
The doctors’ body has called for a nationwide 24-hour protest demanding to implement the Healthcare Services Personnel and Clinical Establishments (Prohibition of Violence and Damage to Property) Bill, 2019, also known as the Central Protection Act.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will conduct a psychological assessment of Sanjay Roy, the accused in a rape-and-murder case of a doctor in Kolkata, officials said on Saturday.
A team of psychological and behavioural analysts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Delhi has arrived in Kolkata to conduct the necessary tests, they said. The CBI has already taken Roy into custody.
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BJP leader and chief organiser of crowd-puller Santosh Mitra Square Puja Committee, Sajal Ghosh on Saturday called upon all Durga Puja committees across West Bengal to decline the state government’s Rs 85,000 honorarium as a mark of protest against “failure to ensure women’s safety”.
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A petition on the Kolkata rape-murder has been filed before the Supreme Court on Saturday amid a 24-hour nationwide strikes by the medical fraternity on August 17.
The petition letter was sent to the Chief Justice urging the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the greusome incident of gang rape and murder of a post graduate trainee doctor in Kolkata on August 9.
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Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and alleged that the police, in collaboration with “TMC goons”, conspired to destroy evidence related to the case. The minister also accused the West Bengal government of mishandling the case.
