Kolkata RG Kar doctor death: Health dept suspends 2 docs from 'North Bengal lobby'
Times of India | 6 September 2024
Avik De (left) and Birupaksha Biswas (right) KOLKATA: The axe fell on doctors Avik De and Birupaksha Biswas who are in the eye of a storm in medical colleges across the state. On Thursday, the state health department suspended them, a move which many in the medical fraternity felt should have been taken earlier. But better late than never, they said on Thursday.
Names of the two appear prominently in posters of the 'health syndicate' that were found recently in medical colleges.Both are also known to be close associates of RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh.
De is the man in red-T shirt in the crime scene who Kolkata Police touted as a fingerprint expert which IMA Bengal challenged. He used to work as an RMO in Burdwan Medical College who is now a first-year surgery PGT at IPGMER.
"He is placed under suspension under rule 7 (1) (a) of the West Bengal Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1971, with immediate effect pending departmental proceedings until further order," said the health department notification.
Birupaksha Biswas, senior resident doctor of pathology, too, has been embroiled in controversy. Junior doctors said he too was present in R G Kar on Aug 9 whereas he had no locus standi to be present.
Audio clips where he is heard threatening other students and junior doctors have gone viral even as Biswas had dismissed those as AI-generated.
He was transferred to Kakdwip Sub-Divisional Hospital last Aug from Burdwan Medical College but his release order was issued only on Tuesday. Protest had also erupted in the Kakdwip hospital over his transfer there.
The health department has not mentioned the reason for his suspension in the Thursday order that also cancels his release order to the Kakdwip hospital.