Kolkata Rape-Murder Case: Calcutta HC Grants Conditional Approval for Doctors' Protest

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted conditional permission to the West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, an umbrella group of senior medical professionals, to hold a sit-in demonstration in central Kolkata.

The protest is organized in response to the bail granted to two individuals accused of tampering with evidence in the brutal rape and murder case of a woman postgraduate doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in August.

According to an IANS report, the single-judge bench of Justice Tirthanka Ghosh permitted the doctors' body to conduct the sit-in-protest from Friday to December 26 but with a gathering of not more than 200 individuals.

Justice Ghosh directed the doctors' body to immediately inform the West Bengal government about the details of their demands on which they will be organising the protest demonstration.

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He also directed the state government to submit their opinion on the demands to his bench in the first half on Friday, following which he will specify the other conditions for conducting the sit-in demonstration.

The doctors had earlier sent an email to Kolkata Police seeking permission for the sit-in-demonstration at Doreena Crossing in central Kolkata. However, as the police denied the permission citing the possibility of traffic congestion in the area as the reason, the association on Tuesday morning approached the bench of Justice Ghosh, challenging the denial of police permission, and their plea was admitted.

Last Friday, the special court in Kolkata granted default bail to R.G. Kar's former controversial Principal Sandip Ghosh and the former SHO of Tala Police Station, Abhijit Mondal, following the CBI's failure to file a charge sheet against them stipulated within 90 days of their arrests.

Both Ghosh and Mondal were accused of misleading the investigation and tampering with evidence during the initial investigation carried out by the Kolkata Police.

The CBI has so far filed only one charge sheet in the matter where civic volunteer Sanjay Roy has been identified as the "sole prime" accused in the rape and murder case. Already, the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front has threatened to resume their cease work protest which they withdrew earlier keeping the larger public interest in mind. The parents of the victim have already claimed that following the CBI’s failure in the matter, "protests on the streets" with spontaneous public support are the only way out left for them now, news agency IANS reported.

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