Seurity personnel stand guard at Central Government Offices (CGO) complex, housing the CBI office, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.
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Security enhanced at Jammu hospitals to ensure safety of doctors, medical staff
Security has been beefed up at government hospitals in Jammu with the deployment of armed security personnel to ensure the safety of medical staff and doctors, officials said on Friday.
This step was taken in the wake of the rape and murder of a doctor at a hospital in Kolkata and related incidents of violence at the hospital.
The deployment of security forces, including CRPF, has been made at Government Medical College (GMC) hospital and Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospital, they said.
We have faith in CBI probe, says victim's parents
Kolkata earlier this month, on Friday voiced their confidence in the ongoing CBI inquiry.
They also said they may join the demonstration of students of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, where their daughter's body was found on August 9.
“From the outset, we felt the (state) administration and police were trying to shield someone, trying to hide something as one person cannot be involved in such a crime,” the father told reporters at their residence in North 24 Parganas district.
Her mother said they did not find the words of Commissioner of Kolkata Police Vineet Goyal reassuring.
Cal HC allows protest march to state secretariat over rape-murder of woman doctor
The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to prohibit a march to the West Bengal state secretariat 'Nabanna' on August 27 to protest the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, holding that the fundamental right to hold peaceful protest cannot be curbed.
Praying for prohibiting the call for the march in the surrounding areas of Nabanna, a lawyer and a resident of Shibpur in the vicinity moved a PIL before the court, stating that it should not be allowed without proper application seeking permission to organise the event.
CBI assigned financial irregularities probe, gets polygraph test nod on ex-principal
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital during the tenure of its former principal Sandip Ghosh from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the CBI.
The central agency also got permission from another city court to conduct a polygraph test on Ghosh and five others in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee inside the hospital earlier this month.
Ghosh was removed from the post of the principal of the RG Kar hospital after the rape and murder that sparked nationwide outrage and cease work by junior doctors in the facility which is still continuing.
As per the order of the court, all documents pertaining to the alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar have been handed over to CBI by SIT today: Kolkata Police
Polygraph test on main accused and 6 others including ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College has started, say officials
The polygraph test on the main accused, Sanjay Roy, will be conducted in the prison, where he is lodged, while the remaining six, including former principal Sandip Ghosh and four doctors who were on duty during the night of the incident and a civil volunteer, will undergo test at the agency's office, the officials said.
A team of polygraph specialists from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Delhi have flown to Kolkata to conduct these tests, they said.
"Investigation is on. CBI has taken the responsibility. We want all those involved in the incident to be punished, even the CM has said so...," says West Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee
A team of Cyber Crime Police arrives at CBI office in Kolkata to handover CCTV footage of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
SFI workers hold a protest march in Kolkata
DYFI workers hold a protest march in Kolkata
CBI takes over investigation into alleged financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College
The CBI on Saturday took over the case of alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata during the tenure of former principal Sandip Ghosh, officials said.
The action came on the directions of the Calcutta High Court which transferred the probe to the agency from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The CBI collected necessary documents from the SIT on Saturday and proceeded to re-register the FIR, the official said.
The high court had issued directives on a petition by former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Akhtar Ali, who requested a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged financial misconduct at the medical college during the tenure of Ghosh.
The college has come into media glare following the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor on the campus on August 9, they said.
The high court had directed the CBI to submit a progress report on the investigation within three weeks. The court has scheduled a follow-up hearing for September 17 to review the report. (PTI)