People take part in a candlelight protest against the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata on September 4. (Image: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra)
The TMC countered the allegations by posting a video of the parents on social media in which their version is different while the BJP pressed on for the resignation of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal
Family members of a woman doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital last month, have made startling accusations against the Kolkata Police. Joining the protesting junior doctors at the medical institution on Wednesday (September 4), the victim’s parents alleged that the Kolkata Police attempted to hush up the case through bribery and by hurriedly cremating their daughter’s body.
This has led to another political meltdown with the TMC countering the allegations by posting a video of the parents on social media in which their version is different. The BJP, meanwhile, pressed on for the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Kolkata police commission Vineet Kumar Goyal.
What are the parents saying now?
The woman doctor’s parents made strong allegations and said, on August 9, a senior police officer offered them money and asked them to give their signatures on a white sheet of paper. They further alleged that there was a lot of pressure on them to cremate the body against their wishes.
“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 victim’s father said.
At the same time, countering the parents’ claims, Trinamool Congress IT cell head Debangshu Bhattacharya Dev posted a video on social media platform, where the parents can purportedly be heard saying money was not offered to them.
Posting the purported video of the parents, Dev said: Hear what the parents have to say.”
In the video, which could not be independently verified by News18, two persons can be heard saying: “We want justice, police did not offer us money…”
Here are a few questions posed by the parents:
- Why did the authorities tell us our daughter had died by suicide without checking?
- Why did it take three hours for us to see our daughter even after we begged the police to let us see her body?
- Why did the authorities delay the post-mortem and registration of the FIR in the case?
- Why did the police file the case as unnatural death in the beginning?
- Why did the hospital not talk to us for at least seven hours?
