West Bengal Bandh: The BJP has called for a 12-hour general strike in West Bengal on Wednesday to protest police action on protesters during Nabanna Abhiyan march to the state secretariat.
The Supreme Court, while hearing the Kolkata rape-murder case, had asked the West Bengal government not to use force to suppress the peaceful protesters.
Suvendu Adhikari said Mamata Banerjee is responsible for the violence caused during the protests called by the students earlier in the day and stated that the President’s rule must be imposed to restore the law and order situation in the state.
Nabanna Abhijan rally HIGHLIGHTS: Hundreds of students on Tuesday took to the streets and protested against the Kolkata rape and murder of the doctor at a hospital in the city. The West Bengal Police lathicharged them to hold them back and stop them from marching to the secretariat.
Kolkata rape and murder case: Amit Malviya said the CBI should take Mamata Banerjee and Kolkata Police commissioner into custody, go over their phone records and subject them to a polygraph test to unearth the conspiracy behind the young woman doctor’s rape and murder.
Nabanna Rally: After the protests turned violent, police used tear gas and water cannons to stop the protesters from marching towards the Secretariat as no permission was given for the protest march.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, last time, held a protest march on Kolkata road on August 15, seeking justice for the family of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in the RG Kar Medical Hospital in the city.
The ED's involvement was triggered by a Calcutta High Court order, expanding the investigation into the misconduct allegations, including illegal activities linked to unclaimed bodies and biomedical waste.
West Bengal police have ramped up security around the Nabanna state secretariat in anticipation of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally on Tuesday. The protest, organized to condemn the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College, has been deemed "illegal" by authorities.
Student organisation Chhatra Samaj has made a call to hold a 'Nabanna Abhijan' rally, demanding the resignation of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and action against those responsible for the rape and murder of a doctor in RG Kar hospital.
West Bengal Police called the scheduled rallies, support for which has been mainly garnered over social media platforms, as "illegal" and “unauthorized”, and said they have taken necessary precautions to allay apprehensions about potential law and order situations during the march.
RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) came into media glare following the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in a seminar hall on August 9 in which a traffic police volunteer Sanjay Roy was arrested.
Union Minister and state BJP chief Sukanata Majumdar called for an investigation into Mamata Banerjee in connection with the Kolkata rape and murder case.
Kolkata doctor rape and murder case: The CBI, which took over the investigation five days after the crime, conducted polygraph tests on seven individuals, including RG Kar's former Principal Sandeep Ghosh, in connection with the Kolkata rape and murder case.
The financial irregularities case came to light after students and doctors alleged huge financial irregularities in RG Kar, prompting an investigation by Kolkata Police. The probe was later taken over by the SIT.
The CBI, which took over the investigation after five days of the crime, conducted the polygraph test of six people, including Sandeep Ghosh, related to the Kolkata rape and murder case.
The CBI on Thursday sought a polygraph test on former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and four other junior doctors in connection with the case.
Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: The trainee doctor's body was found with severe injury marks inside the seminar hall of the state-run hospital's chest department. A civic volunteer was arrested by the Kolkata Police in connection with the case the following day on August 10.
After the rape and murder case of a doctor at Kolkata hospital shocked the entire nation, the parents of the victim spoke to India TV in an Exclusive Interview and detailed everything they faced on August 9, the day of the heinous crime.
In an exclusive interview with India TV, the Kolkata rape-murder victim's parents expressed their grief and spoke at length about the incident. The aggrieved parents also showed their anguish at the lacklustre approach of Kolkata police in handling the case.
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