Latest R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital News & Updates

Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) A day after a special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued an arrest warrant against him, former Deputy Superintendent of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital Akhtar Ali appeared in court on Saturday after being brought from a hospital in Howrah. However, as the court had closed at 12.30 p.m., he could not surrender and will now appear again on Monday.While entering the court, he said, “The money that I am being accused of taking, I borrowed for my g…

Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) The news of the promotion of Seema Pahuja, the investigation officer in the case of ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, within the hospital premises in August 2024, has left the parents of the victim frustrated.Recently, CBI released a list of Additional Superintendents being promoted to the rank of Superintendents.The list contained the name of Pahuja, who had been elevated from the position of Add…

Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), here, on Friday, issued arrest warrant against Akhtar Ali, who had been the first whistleblower in the multi-crore financial irregularities case in state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, also infamous for the ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor within the hospital premises in August 2024.Ali, the former Deputy Superintendent of R.G. Kar, was the first one to raise an alarm over th…

Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Friday, filed its chargesheet at a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata on the multi-crore financial irregularities case at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, infamous over the ghastly rape and murder of a junior woman doctor on the hospital premises.The ED and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had been conducting parallel probes in the R.G. Kar financial irregularities ca…

Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday submitted a fresh status report on the progress of its investigation into the alleged larger conspiracy behind the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August 2024, at a trial court in Sealdah in central Kolkata.The last time the central investigating agency submitted a status report in the matter was in November 2025. However, the victim’s parents e…

Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) Aniket Mahato, one of the prominent faces of the protest movement by junior doctors in West Bengal against the ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata within the hospital premises in August 2024, on Thursday tendered his resignation from the post of president of the “board of trustees” of the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body spearheading the movement.In his resignati…

Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) Service Doctors’ Forum, an association of medical practitioners in West Bengal, has threatened a major protest demonstration against the Election Commission of India (ECI), for its decision to issue summons to clinically ailing patients and senior citizens asking them to be present at the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list.Incidentally, the Forum played a leading role in spearheading the mass movement on the issue of the ghastly rape and mur…