Junior Doctors Protest in West Bengal: Seeking Justice Amidst Adversity

Junior doctors in West Bengal are continuing their protest demanding justice for a colleague who was raped and murdered. The protestors have been holding a sit-in for six days despite adverse weather. The state government has failed to address their demands. The CBI is probing the case.

Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal on Sunday said they remain steadfast in their resolve to pursue justice for the medic raped and murdered at the RG Kar hospital, a day after another attempt to resolve the impasse with the state government fell through.

Amid persistent rain, the protesting doctors continued their sit-in outside 'Swasthya Bhavan', the state health department headquarters in Salt Lake, for the sixth consecutive day.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Saturday made a surprise visit to the site where the doctors were protesting and assured them that their demands would be addressed, but the proposed meeting fell through, with the protesters claiming that they were asked to leave ''unceremoniously'' after waiting for three hours at the gates of the CM's residence.

The CBI, which is probing the rape-murder case, on Saturday evening added charges of tampering with evidence against former RG Kar hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, who is currently in judicial custody and arrested Abhijit Mondal, the officer-in-charge of Tala police station, on charges of misleading the investigation and altering the crime scene.

(With inputs from agencies.)