RG Kar Case: Dr Santanu Sen removed from West Bengal Medical Council
Kolkata: Dr Santanu Sen, a former Rajya Sabha member who recently turned rebel, has been removed from his position as a state-government-nominated member of the West Bengal Medical Council. Sen, a former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, had attracted attention following his outspoken comments on the tragic rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August.
Sen had turned a rebel over the recent incident of rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata in August this year and at that point in time, had made some comments that posed an embarrassment for his party.
According to an IANS report, last month, Trinamool legislator and the Council President, Sudipto Roy, also a medical practitioner, sent a letter to the state Health & Family Welfare department seeking Sen’s removal from that chair.
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