12 Kolkata: Members of the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF) walked in a torch rally, covering around a 2.5 km from the West Bengal Medical Council to the CGO complex on Wednesday evening. They raised questions over the CBI probe into the RG Kar rape and murder. They demanded "a proper charge-sheet from the CBI" and "the arrest of all the culprits involved in the crime at the earliest".
This was the third march to the CGO complex by doctors in the past two months. Last month, WBJDF members held a protest march to the CGO complex from Swasthya Bhavan. Some senior doctors took out a separate rally to the central agency's office after that.
Around 6 pm on Wednesday, about 300 junior doctors of the front, flanked by some senior doctors and other people, started the torch rally. They reached the CGO complex via Karunamoyee.
On Oct 7, CBI submitted a 45-page charge-sheet in a special Sealdah court, implicating civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy. The agency has prayed for Roy's in-custody trial.
Ashfaqullah Naiya, a junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College, who participated in the torch rally, said: "Eighty days have passed but justice has not yet come. This is the second march to the CGO complex, and our main demand is that the CBI ought to expedite its probe into the crime. We shall keep up the fight till all the perpetrators of the crime are punished."
Another junior doctor from Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, Ankush Ghosh, said: "The charge-sheet named only Sanjoy Roy. We demand that all the culprits be nabbed immediately and none involved in this should be protected. We are not satisfied with the charge-sheet. We demand that the investigation agency submit a proper charge-sheet so that all the accused get punishment and Abhaya gets justice."
Earlier on Wednesday, the representatives of another junior doctors' organisation, West Bengal Junior Doctors' Association, walked from near Prachi Cinema to Sealdah court demanding justice for Abhaya. Sourav Das, a representative of the association and an intern at RG Kar, said: "We demand justice to come faster. Also, we want the authorities to look into the issues highlighted on medical college campuses."