Outrage over assault, murder of doc in WB

Kolkata, August 10

Police arrested one person for his alleged involvement in the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run Kar Medical College and Hospital, a senior officer said on Saturday.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asserted that her government will seek death penalty for the accused in the alleged sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor. Banerjee also said she has asked officials to ensure that the case be tried in a fast track court.

The body of the woman doctor was found inside the seminar hall of a government-run hospital in north Kolkata on Friday. A preliminary autopsy report has indicated sexual abuse before she was killed. The CM also said the protests and processions by junior doctors demanding exemplary punishment for the accused and enhanced security at hospitals were justified. “I endorse the demands being made by the junior doctors,” she told a Bengali news channel.

Banerjee said the state government has no objection to a probe into the case by any agency, including the CBI, if there is a demand for it. Describing the incident as gruesome and despicable, she urged the junior doctors at various state-run hospitals to carry on giving healthcare services, while holding the protests. — PTI