Patuli Thana Officer-In-Charge Tirthankar Dey shared the distasteful comment on agitating doctors calling them "comrades"
A Kolkata Police official has shared a post on social media, mocking the doctors’ protests over the RG Kar rape and murder case, stirring a fresh row. He wrote, “Tora din raat jai jagis na keno, 0 chili, 0 thakbi (Even if you protest day and night, you were a zero and remain one forever).”
According to sources, Patuli Thana Officer-In-Charge, Tirthankar Dey, shared the distasteful comment on agitating doctors, calling them “comrades”.
Reacting to the development, the police department has launched an inquiry against Dey.
Doctors’ Protest
Doctors and healthcare professionals have been holding protests seeking better safety laws, a better work environment and justice for the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was found raped and murdered at Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
Even as the Supreme Court and state government urged doctors to resume work, junior doctors in Kolkata on Thursday continued their sit-in outside the West Bengal Health Department’s office as well as their ‘cease work’.
The agitating doctors have been demonstrating outside the ‘Swathya Bhavan’ for over 40 hours. On Wednesday, the government had rejected the doctors’ demands for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s presence and a live broadcast as preconditions for talks to resolve the impasse.
A large number of police personnel have been deployed in and around ‘Swathya Bhavan’ at Salt Lake, and traffic movement was regulated.
“We will continue our agitation and ‘cease work’. But, we did not want to continue this. The state government is not open to holding any meetings with us. And, we want to make it clear that there is no politics behind our stir,” one of the protesting doctors told news agency PTI.
Meanwhile, healthcare services at state-run hospitals remained crippled on Thursday, as the ‘cease work’ by the junior doctors entered the 34th day.
