R.G. Kar Medical College Case
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Protesting Doctors' Fast-Unto-Death Enters Second Day, RG Kar Case
"We have withdrawn our cease-work agitation keeping in mind the interest of the patients. But at the same time six of us have started the hunger strike agitation to send a message to the state government of not succumbing unless our demands are fulfilled," said a representative of the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front, the umbrella body spearheading the movement of the junior doctors against the heinous crime. Meanwhile, Pulastya Acharya, one of the six fasting doctors, said on Sunday that they have sought permission from the Kolkata Police to set up a bio-toilet near the hunger-strike venue.
Ten Confidant Doctors of Sandip Ghosh Expelled, RG Kar Case
All 10 of them, sources said, were extremely close confidants of Sandip Ghosh, the former and controversial principal of R.G. Kar, against whom the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting two parallel probes — the first being in relation to the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of the hospital in August this year and the second being gross financial irregularities.
CBI Arrests Confidant of Sandip Ghosh in RG Kar Financial Irregularities Case
Pande was also once summoned to the CBI's Salt Lake office earlier and questioned in connection with the matter.
Junior Doctors Stage Massive Protest March on Mahalaya Seeking Justice for RG Kar Victim
The protest march was led by the Bengal Junior Doctors' Front. It started from College Street to the Esplanade area. This is an altogether new wave of protests by doctors at the state government as an escalation of an ongoing agitation over better safety measures for healthcare professionals.
RG Kar Tragedy: Junior Doctors Officially End Sit-In After Rally to CBI Office
The protesters had declared late Thursday they would withdraw the protest, and the formal statement was made after the junior doctors led a protest rally up to the office of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office at CGO Complex, also in Salt Lake, on Friday evening.
RG Kar Fiasco: Junior Doctors to Continue 'Cease Work' as Bengal CS 'Refuses' to Record Meeting Minutes
Differences of opinion between the representatives of WBJDF and the state government could be felt even after the formal meeting, which started at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, was over in little over two hours and the deliberations between the two parties over finalising the minutes of the meeting stretched for over three hours after the meeting got over.
Kolkata Rape-Murder Case: West Bengal Govt Assures SC No Punitive Action Against Junior Doctors Resuming Duties
Junior doctors were protesting over the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College.
RG Kar Rape-Murder Case: CBI Granted 3-Day Custody of Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal
The court accepted the submission of CBI counsel by stating that as Mondal did not have a "direct role" in the rape and murder case, he had been accused of tampering with evidence and delaying the initial probe process while Kolkata Police were handling the rape-murder case.
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