The parents of the deceased Kolkata trainee physician, who was brutally raped and murdered at RG Kar medical faculty on August 9, has made a surprising revelation.
The parents of the deceased trainee physician, who was raped and murdered within the seminar corridor of RG Kar medical faculty of Kolkata, have claimed that the police tried to ‘bribe them initially to suppress the case’.
“The police, from the very beginning, tried to hush up the case. We were not allowed to see the body and had to wait at the police station while the body was taken for post-mortem examinations,” stated the physician’s father, as quoted by NDTV.
He went on to disclose {that a} senior police officer had supplied them cash when their daughter’s physique was handed over to them.
“Later, when the body was handed over to us, a senior police official offered us money, which we immediately declined,” he added.
A 31-year-old trainee physician was discovered useless and half-naked within the seminar corridor of RG Kar medical faculty on August 9, following which, the Kolkata police and the West Bengal authorities got here beneath sturdy criticism for itshandling of the case.
The incident was additionally adopted by a number of protests throughout the nation, with folks demanding justice for the sufferer and capital punishment for the responsible. Slogans focusing on the police and the state authorities have been doing rounds on social media.
An accused Sanjay Roy, who labored on the hospital as a civic volunteer, was arrested and handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the central company dealing with the case.
Several media experiences have steered that Roy had claimed earlier than the CBI in the course of the polygraph take a look at that he was ‘harmless’ and ‘being framed’.
He will plead not responsible within the court docket, as steered by experiences.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities handed the ‘anti-rape’ invoice in the course of the particular session of the assmembly referred to as within the wake of the horrific incident.
The ‘anti-rape’ invoice, titled Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, offers for capital punishment for these convicted for rape, if their actions end result within the sufferer’s dying or depart her in a vegetative state. Additionally, the seeks a life sentence with out parole for these convicted of rape.
