Amid claims made by the family members of the raped and murdered junior lady doctor of the RG Kar Medical College Hospital that they were offered money by the powers that be, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday denied such reports saying false claims were being made against her.

The junior doctors had been raped and murdered on the morning of August 8 kicking up a countrywide storm which was still blowing violently over Bengal with the junior doctors’ cease work protest reaching almost a month on Monday.

Asking for oral evidence of such offer if any the Chief Minister on Monday said that she had never made such proposal. “I never said that money should be offered. Please show me the proof

where I spoke about money. These are all false allegations, conspiracy and untrue propaganda…rather I told the parents of the victim that money can never be an alternative and that the State

Government will always be by their side if need be," Banerjee said.

Curiously the Chief Minister was silent about the allegations made on camera by the parents of the victim that they had indeed been approached by a senior IPS officer who had offered a packet stuffed with cash.

“Not only the police seemed to be in a hurry to cremate the body of my daughter … they also did not cooperate with us … tried to get a signature on a blank paper … they also did not allow us to see the body for more than three hours during which we were sitting inside the hospital,” the father of the victim said.

The mother of the victim told a mass gathering of protesters in front of the RG Kar Medical College where she was doing her post graduation on chest medicine how the IPS officer tried to

purchase their silence. “We were offered money … not only this we were also made to tell in front of the camera that we were not offered money … had they not offered us the money then

why would they get such videography done,” asked the mother of the victim.