Key points
- Parents allege cover-up
- Demand full investigation and justice
- CBI accused of delay
- No supplementary charge sheet filed
ISLAMABAD: Nearly a year after a young woman doctor was brutally raped and murdered inside a locked seminar room at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College, her grieving parents continue to seek justice, with faith now resting solely in the judiciary.
On 9 August last year, the 26-year-old postgraduate trainee was found dead in the Chest Medicine Department’s seminar hall. The nature of the attack and its location inside a government-run hospital sparked outrage across West Bengal and beyond, according to The Hindu.
WEST BENGAL HORROR
A female junior resident doctor Moumita Debnath on duty in RG Kar medical College was brutally παρed and mυπdered on duty.
She went to the seminar hall to rest and was found dead in the morning.
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— Sunanda Roy 👑 (@SaffronSunanda) August 13, 2024
Her father told the media, “We have lost all trust in the police and CBI. The agency appears compromised—they’ve merely echoed what the Kolkata Police said.”
Civic volunteer Sanjay Roy was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, the victim’s family insists the case remains unresolved.
Suspicious behaviour
“We’ve always said there was more than one person involved. She was strong—one man alone couldn’t have done this,” her mother said, alleging a wider cover-up.
Her father pointed to suspicious behaviour on the day of her cremation: “Three bodies were present, yet our daughter was cremated first. Why the hurry?”
Two further arrests followed—RG Kar’s then-principal Sandip Ghosh and Tala police station’s former officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondal—for allegedly misleading the investigation. However, Mondal was granted bail after the CBI failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days.
“The CBI keeps claiming to be investigating a ‘larger conspiracy’, but a year has passed. No new arrests. No supplementary charge sheets. Nothing,” the father said.
Unanswered questions
The Supreme Court also raised questions over the handling of the case—questions the family says remain unanswered.
“We’re ordinary people, not fools,” the mother added. “This happened in a locked room in a secure hospital. Someone powerful protected the culprits.”
Lamenting the lack of real accountability, the father added, “What we’ve seen is a mockery of justice. They want to drag this for years until we’re gone.”
Despite initial mass protests, public attention has faded. But forums like ‘Abhaya Mancha’ are planning events on 9 and 14 August to keep the issue alive.
“We don’t want revenge,” the father said. “We want the truth. We want justice—not bail, but jail. Our only daughter’s dreams now lie in a wooden trunk. All we ask is the truth before we die.”
