Junior doctors pay tribute, vow to continue their fight
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Kolkata: On Saturday, which marked one year since the rape-murder horror of an on-duty junior doctor, RG Kar Medical College campus resembled a fortress, embedded in layers of security personnel.
A large contingent from Kolkata Police and CISF stood guard at the hospital's gate, keeping a vigil on all passing through the gate.
Unlike the unrest on Park Street during the Nabanna Abhijan, colleagues from the campus, as well as from other medical colleges and health workers, quietly paid tribute to 'Abhaya'.
After a night-long protest gathering at Shyambazar, following a torch rally on Friday, the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front (WBJDF) gathered at ground zero in the RG Kar campus on Saturday.
The candlelight gathering in front of the 'Cry of the Hour' began by paying floral homage to the 31-year-old rape-murder victim. The representative sculpture of Abhaya was installed in the hospital premises by WBJDF in October last year, barely 100m away from the Emergency building where the second-year chest medicine PGT was found raped and murdered.
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"There are so many unanswered questions around this crime. While the motive behind the incident is not known yet, the CBI has failed to submit a supplementary charge sheet.
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We will keep mounting pressure till Abhaya gets justice," said Soumyadip Roy of WBJDF.
Post the rape-murder, reports of evidence tampering, corruption, and other irregularities emerged from the campus, leading to the arrest of Sandip Ghosh, former principal, who currently is in judicial custody.
While the investigating agencies so far have found only Sanjoy Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, WBJDF and most in the medical community believe the involvement of more than one in the crime.
Roy was convicted in January this year.
The gathering at RG Kar on Saturday said that they will not relent till they are convinced that justice has been served. "It is unfortunate that even after a year of such a crime there is no logical closure of the case," said a senior doctor at the hospital. Members of the Service Doctors' Forum, Medical Service Centre, and Nurses Unit also joined the gathering after marching from Shyambazar.
Since morning, the campus was abuzz with junior doctors tying rakhi to all on the campus, including the patients. Similar kinds of raksha bandhan and candlelight vigils for Abhaya were held across all medical colleges in the state.
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