The doctors’ movement over the rape and murder of a lady doctor inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital took a sharp turn with the Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Thursday releasing an audio-tape suggesting some Left groups were planning attack on the agitating doctors to malign the State Government.
“The audio-tape pertains to a conversation between members of two Leftist organizations who are discussing the pros and cons of an attack on the doctors who are staging a sit-in demonstration outside the Swasthya Bhavan,” Ghosh playing the tape said.
In the purported discussion between the two persons one is asking to send criminals to attack the doctors after their talks with the State Government fizzled out Thursday. While the other person however is reluctant to mount such attack on “people who save our lives” the first person reminds him of the political dividend such an attack could produce painting the Mamata Banerjee Government in a bad light, Ghosh said adding the audio tape was forwarded to him by some sources and the police were already investigating it.
By late on Friday evening the Bidhan Nagar Police Commissionerate had instituted a suo motu case and started investigations into it, sources in the Government said adding the police were on high alert and security had been beefed up around the area where the doctors were staging a dharna demanding justice for the RGKMCH victim and removal of top IPS officers including the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal, State Health Secretary and two Directors of Health for playing an alleged role in destroying evidence.
While the doctors would not speak immediately, the Left leaders demanded an investigation into the purported conspiracy saying, “the Government is trying not only to scare the doctors indirectly into withdrawing the movement but also defaming the Marxists.
“It is strange that the Government is so much scared of a party which has “zero” representation in Assembly.
“Mamata Banerjee is a viciously cunning politician who is trying to shoot many birds in a single shot … she is scaring the doctors to withdraw the movement … she is maligning the Left because the Left rallies are getting bigger and longer … and she is trying to divert the attention from the RG Kar incident to a different side,” Sujan Chakrabarty a senior CPI(M) leader said.
Curiously Ghosh’s “revelation” came to the media in tandem with reports that the Government had asked the Principals of all the 26 Medical Colleges to prepare a list of junior doctors who had joined the cease work campaign, sources said.
Meanwhile, even as the doctors said that their movement would go on until the Government spreads out the dialogue table and addresses their demands a Kolkata Court on Friday rejected an application filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking Narco Analysis Test of Sanjoy Rai the prime accused in the rape and murder case.
“The ACJM Court while rejecting the CBI application said that such an act goes against the Fundamental Rights of the person concerned if he is forced to undergo such test,” a lawyer said.
