West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her government will hand over the RG Kar hospital doctor murder probe to the CBI if police fail to solve the case by Sunday.
Banerjee also said she wants the case to be tried in a fast track court.
“If the police are unable to solve this by Sunday, we will hand over the case to the CBI. However, the success rate of the central probe agency is very low,” Banerjee told the media.
CM Banerjee’s statement came after she had visited the residence of the murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and spoken to her parents and family members on Monday.
Meanwhile, facing backlash over the rape and murder of a doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, principal Sandip Ghosh resigned from his post and government service on Monday morning, days after junior doctors demanded his removal for failing to provide security to the staff.
Ghosh’s decision comes a day after the West Bengal government removed the medical superintendent-cum-vice-principal Sanjay Vashisth, who was replaced by Bulbul Mukhopadhyay, the dean of student affairs, with additional responsibilities as superintendent.
Over the past three days, junior doctors had been covering emergency duties, but as of Monday morning, they ceased all responsibilities, demanding a magisterial inquiry into the doctor’s death.
The students have also demanded that the post-mortem examination report of the victim and footage of the CCTV installed near the seminar hall from where the body was found be made public.
Ghosh, who took office in mid-2021, denied the allegations, stating that he cannot tolerate the false accusations and has already cooperated with the police, including handing over CCTV footage.
“I cannot take this insult anymore. All the allegations raised against me are false and fabricated. A student movement has been incited to remove me. There is a political mind behind this. I had informed the police within an hour of the incident. CCTV footage has been handed over to police,” Ghosh said.
“I want the agitating students to rejoin duty soon,” he added.
Ghosh had personally visited Swasthya Bhavan to hand over his resignation.
The body of the woman post-graduate trainee, who was allegedly raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of the hospital, was found on Friday morning. A civic volunteer was arrested in this connection on Saturday.
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