The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has declared a 24-hour withdrawal of services by all the modern medicine doctors of the country irrespective of the sector and place of work in response to nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a second-year trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical Co
Emergencies and casualties will function. No OPDs. No elective surgeries. The withdrawal commenced at 6 am on Saturday and will end at 6 am on Sunday, August 18, 2024.
The NCW in a statement said on Saturday that the site where the deceased was allegedly raped and murdered is undergoing sudden renovations, potentially leading to tampering with evidence.
BJP MP Sangeeta Yadav lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, saying, "What can be a bigger drama than the one who is in power taking out a protest rally?"
Amid the ongoing protest in Kolkata over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital junior doctors Rumalika Kumar and Riya Bera said that demands for justice were not fulfilled at all and also for the immediate arrest of all the culprits with proper evidence.
To protest against the rape and murder of a junior doctor, the BJP Mahila Morcha under the leadership its national president Vanathi Srinivasan took out a silent candle march outside the Medical College.
Two lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court on Thursday wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud urging him to take auto moto cognizance of the tape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College.
Raising critical questions in the RG Medical College rape and murder case, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday called for a thorough investigation into the allegations surrounding the incident.
Stepping up his attacks at the state government, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday said that West Bengal is facing a bizarre situation where the government has failed to maintain law and order in the state and people are unable to distinguish between the criminals and police.<
Taking it to a social media post on X, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra wrote, "The cruelties against women in Kolkata, Bihar, Uttarakhand and UP have shaken the entire country. At this time, women across the country are in grief and anger."
The Indian Medical Association (Goa Branch) will conduct a protest march here tomorrow (August 17) demanding justice for the doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
West Bengal BJP President and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar was detained on Friday during a protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.