RG Kar Case: Mamata Banerjee Accepts Some Demands Of Protesting Doctors; Removes Kolkata Police Commissioner, Health Officials

Accepting some of the demands of doctors protesting RG Kar rape-murder, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the removal of Kolkata Commissioner of Police (CP) Vineet Kumar Goyal.

According to her, Goyal will resign and at 4 pm today (17 September) will hand over the responsibility to the new CP. Banerjee claimed to have taken Goyal in confidence to seek his resignation.

Banerjee defended the delay by police in lodging the First Information Report (FIR) in the rape and murder case of the 31-year-old trainee doctor and said that they have lots of work, which might cause delay.

Banerjee claimed to have accepted three of four demands of the protesting doctors. In the Health Department, there was a demand for the removal of three officials, two of whom have been removed.

"What more we could have done. We have agreed 99 per cent demands. My humble request to all the junior doctors is to join the work so that commoners should not suffer, especially due to rain-related disease," she added.

Supreme Court had directed the doctors to return to work but the protesting doctors defied that order and continued protesting as their talks with Banerjee could not materialise earlier.

The dead body of the second-year post-graduate doctor was found in the seminar hall of state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on 9 August. The case was transferred to the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI).