Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dilip Ghosh took oath as a Minister in the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, his mother and sister on Sunday appealed the state government to ensure justice to the post-graduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024.Speaking to IANS, Ghosh’s sister Subhashini Paria said: “I am hoping that my brother will look after the state, especially…
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Panihati (West Bengal), May 8 (IANS) Ratna Debnath, BJP MLA-elect and mother of the trainee doctor who was sexually assaulted and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Friday alleged on Friday that certain activists from the Trinamool Congress are posing as BJP supporters and indulging in post-poll violence in West Bengal. She further asserted that no Trinamool activist will be allowed to be a part of the BJP.Speaking to IANS, Debnath, who won from the Panihati Assembly constituenc…
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) At least five BJP workers were injured after crude bombs were hurled at them in the Panihati area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, said police on Thursday.This attack happened hours after the ghastly murder of Chandranath Rath, long-time personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari.The police said the incident took place after midnight on Dutta Road in Ward No. 2 of Panihati Municipality.It is learned that some BJP workers were talking to the common people when severa…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) In February 2019, Mamata Banerjee wrote an 18-line poem titled ‘Key’, lamenting what she saw as a ‘shrinking’ democratic space under the regime at the Centre. The poem spoke of voices being stifled, of lips metaphorically locked, and of a reckoning that would one day confront those in power. It was a political message wrapped in verse — sharp, accusatory, and unambiguous in its intent. Seven years on, those very lines seem to echo differently — an uncomfortable reflecti…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) With law-and-order situation in West Bengal under question in the ongoing Assembly election, the rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and the Sandeshkhali exploitation and repression in North 24 Parganas district have re-emerged as major campaign issues ahead of the second phase of polls to be held on Wednesday.Opposition parties in the state have been raising the episodes to underscore allegations of intimidation, violence, and crime aga…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar rape and murder victim and BJP candidate from Panihati Assembly constituency, said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated her for “fighting with great courage”.Earlier in the day, PM Modi addressed a huge public meeting in Panihati in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas ahead of the second phase of the Assembly election.Speaking to IANS, she said, “PM Modi told me that I am fighting with great courage. When I told him that…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case revealed that all three lift operators who were on duty on the night of March 20 when the incident took place were completely inebriated due to overconsumption of alcohol and were not in a position to attend to duties.Investigation revealed that the mishap in the hospital building that houses the trauma care centre could also have happened in any other lift, since the persons who were supposed to operate those elevators …
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death revealed that the lift operators at the hospital had received no training on how to handle emergency situations and they had been appointed just one month prior to the tragic incident on March 20.Detectives from Kolkata Police uncovered this crucial information while interrogating the three lift operators arrested in connection with the fatal incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in which Arup Banerjee of Nager Baza…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Investigations into the elevator death at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have revealed that the same lift had malfunctioned just seven days before the tragic incident.According to Kolkata Police, the elevator in the Trauma Care unit developed technical issues on March 13, prompting engineers to inspect and reportedly repair it the same day. However, on March 20, Arup Banerjee, a resident of Nager Bazar in north Kolkata, was crushed between the elevator an…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case have revealed that the security guards were completely unaware that a key to the basement was kept in the office of the Superintendent of the hospital. As a result, what should have taken just three minutes to find the key ended up taking 33 minutes. Despite suffering fractures to his ribs and ruptures to his internal organs, Arup Banerjee had survived for nearly an hour. Investigators said on Tuesday that his life could…