The parents, particularly the mother of the victim lady doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who had last month been raped and murdered while on duty expressed “remorseful shock” at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to the people in general and the junior doctors to shun movement and return to work and prepare for the festive Durga Puja season ahead.

“It is strange that madam Chief Minister has threatened action against the junior doctors who are still not feeling safe in their work places and who are asking for justice … it is all the more shocking that she has all of us to return to festive mood,” the mother of the victim said wondering how a woman could say like that.

“Can she return my daughter so that I can return to festive mood … Could she have returned to festive mode and celebrate Durga Puja had the victim who is my daughter been her own relative … my daughter used to celebrate Durga Pujas every year and she herself organized the Pujas in our house … now we know that we will never have the Puja in our house … all our festivals have gone forever … there will be no light in our house … but my question is should the Chief Minister who is also a woman have been a little more sensitive and careful in choosing her sentences … we have just lost our everything and this was another blow that came from the topmost person of our State from whom we are seeking justice.”

Banerjee had on Monday told the people of the State in general and the agitating doctors in particular to return to work and prepare for Durga Puja festivals as “already one month has elapsed,” since the RG Kar incident took place.

The mother of the victim also said that the Chief Minister was not telling the truth about the Government offering the parents money after the victim's tragic death.

“The Chief Minister is not telling the truth… Would I lie in the name of my daughter who will never return? The Chief Minister had herself told us that she could arrange for us the requisite amount of money if we wanted to create something in our daughter's memory… then I told that I would definitely go to her for that money but first of all she should ensure justice for my daughter the victim's mother said.

The father of the victim had earlier told that a senior IPS officer had personally approached him with a packet stuffed with notes “when the body of my daughter was still lying inside my house.”

The mother of the victim said, “is this how we deal with a family which has lost its only child  … we know how hard my daughter slogged to become a doctor … she was killed not only in duty but also after serving and perhaps saving several lives … and now she is telling the people to return to celebrate … how a mother who has lost everything can ask the people of the State to go back to the Puja mode when myself I cannot do so.”