The parents of the young doctor raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College has told NDTV that they had lost trust in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after seeing the way the police handled the case. The Central Bureau of Investigation is at least making an effort, her father told NDTV in an exclusive interview. He also said he has handed a page of his daughter’s diary to the CBI, but refused to discuss its contents.  

“Early on I had full faith in her, but now no. She is asking for justice but what is she saying that for? She can take charge of that, she is doing nothing,” he said when asked about the investigation conducted by the state.

“They are saying ‘We want justice’. But those of the general public who are saying the same thing, they are trying to lock them up,” he said, without refering to the lathicharge on supporters at a football match, who raised “We want justice” slogans.  .   

For the rest of the state’s residents, he also had a word of advice: “All the schemes by Mamata Banerjee – the Kanyashree scheme- the Lakshmi scheme — all pseudo. Whoever wants to avail these schemes, before availing them kindly see if your Lakshmi at home safe.”

After a 36-hour shift, the second-year postgrad had gone to an empty seminar room alone on Thursday night to get some rest. The hospital has no on-call room. Apparently she had dropped off to sleep there.

Her partially clothed body, bearing multiple injuries, was found there the next morning.

The prime suspect is Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer with Kolkata Police who was stationed at the police outpost at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and had access to all departments. He was arrested on basis of CCTV footage that showed him entering the building where the doctor was found murdered. A Bluetooth headset found next to the victim’s body was seen on his neck in the CCTV footage. It was found to be paired with his phone as well.

Local media has reported that Roy admitted to the crime soon after police started questioning him. “Hang me if you want,” he had told the police nonchalantly, the reports said.

Asked about the views that it was not once person who attacked their daughter, he said, “We have been saying that from the beginning. All the people we spoke to, even MBBS doctors. agreed thatit was not possible for one person to do as much was done to her”.

The saddest part of the whole matter, he said, was that the people who were supposed to ensure his daughter’s safety, failed to discharge their responsibility.

“As parents, we worry when our child is on the road, not so much when she reaches her workplace. Like we used to drop her to school. Once she is inside the gates, we are relieved,” he told NDTV. “Now she was grown up. The roads were a problem, so we got her a car also,” he added.  

The father of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered in a Kolkata college and hospital has severely criticised the management for not ensuring safety at the workplace.

The grieving father of the young doctor whose life was cut short in a horrific and brutal way told NDTV that he trusted the college authorities to keep his daughter safe – as is expected of any professional workplace.

“The place where I sent my daughter for her to make a living and serve the people, they did not protect her. It is very sad,” he told NDTV.

“We send our daughters to schools, colleges. Once they enter the gate, we do not know how they would be treated, what would happen to them. It was the same with the hospital where she worked too. She was on her own there,” he said.

The father said his daughter was raped and murdered by more than one suspect. “It is impossible that only one suspect is involved. There are more suspects at large,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Kolkata Police issued summons to former BJP MP Locket Chatterjee and two doctors for allegedly spreading rumours and disclosing the identity of the woman doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The police have also issued summons to 57 others for spreading wrong information about the crime, an officer said. Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal told reporters a lot of rumour-mongering has affected the investigation.

The parents of the murdered doctor had claimed they were informed on phone on August 9 that their daughter had died by suicide at the hospital. Mr Goyal has denied this claim. He said no one from the police had dialled the parents to say their daughter died by suicide.

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