Team Clarion
KOLKATA – The former head of RG Kar Medical College has been charged with tampering with evidence linked to the rape and murder of a junior female doctor, a case that triggered weeks of nationwide protests.
Former college principal Sandip Ghosh is already in police custody for suspected graft. Additional charges were levelled against him in a petition filed on Saturday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before a court.
The CBI also arrested Abhijit Mondal, the officer in charge of the police station that has jurisdiction over the college, for failing to protect the crime scene, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Asked about Mondal’s arrest, a senior Kolkata police official said: “We will respond to the charges in court.” The lawyer representing Ghosh could not be immediately reached for comment.
The rape and murder of the 31-year-old doctor, whose body was found at the college more than a month ago, set off a wave of protests by doctors demanding greater safety for women in the workplace and justice for their slain colleague.
Rallies and demonstrations demanding justice for the killed junior doctor swept through West Bengal’s capital city on Sunday. Retired army officers marched from Jadavpur 8B Bus Stand to Golpark in south Kolkata with placards in their hands amid the rains, a Press TRust of India report said on Monday. In Wellington, in the central part of the city, former students of Calcutta Girls’ High School took out a rally. Hundreds of nurses held a rally at Karunamoyee in Salt Lake, seeking safety at the workplace, the report said.
