Mamata wears festivity shield amid Kolkata rape-murder anger
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Supreme Court asks doctors to report to work by Tuesday
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, September 9: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday made a fervent appeal to the RG Kar rape-murder protestors to call off agitation and embrace festivities of Durga Puja. The chief minister addressed media in Kolkata on a day when the Supreme Court raised questions over undue delay in filing an FIR in the rape-murder case.
Banerjee said that the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal had offered to resign amid the agitation. She said that Goyal’s services were required for the orderly celebrations of Durga Puja.
“I appeal to everyone to embrace the Durga Puja festivities and end the demonstrations,” Banerjee said. Her remarks came on a day when the rickshaw-pullers also held protests in Kolkata against the RG Kar rape-murder case.
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The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on the rape-murder case. Serious questions were raised on the conduct of the post mortem after 6 PM against norms and also registering of the FIR after extensive delay.
Questions were also raised on the delay of the forensic team in collecting samples from the crime scene. The CBI informed the apex court about the latest update in the investigation.
The probe agency will be sending the samples outside West Bengal and also to AIIMS. The Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Mishra heard the matter on Monday.
The West Bengal Police informed the Supreme Court that 23 patients have died since the strike by doctors at the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. The Supreme Court asked the agitating doctors to report to work by Tuesday 6 PM.
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The raging protests in Kolkata have put Banerjee in a spot. The Trinamool Congress MP Jawahar Sircar resigned from the party.
Sircar in his resignation letter questioned the handling of the rape-murder of the junior doctor. The political heat is rising against Banerjee also in the wake of the unabated protests against the rape-murder.
Questions were also raised over not preserving the semen sample taken from the vagina of the victim. The Supreme Court also asked that all images of the victim from the social media platforms be removed.
With the Bengali intelligentsia throwing their weight behind the protests, Banerjee is seen struggling in the damage control. She claimed that the reports of her making financial offers to the parents of the victims were “slanderous”.
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