On Tuesday the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the West Bengal government of tampering with evidence in the rape and murder case of a female junior doctor at the state’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The party also said that no woman is safe in West Bengal.
Earlier, members of the student and youth organisations of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest at the R.G. Kar Medical College, accusing the state government of tampering with evidence. Following this, BJP IT cell chief and central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, has issued a statement on the issue.
In a statement on X (formerly Twitter) Malviya claimed that the area marked for resident doctors was being demolished and a women’s toilet inside the chest medicine department, along with other places, was being demolished in the name of ‘repair’.
Malviya’s statement said, “This should leave no one in any doubt that Mamata Banerjee was always trying to destroy evidence and erase the traces of the crime so as to save those involved in this heinous crime, who are speculated to be family members of influential Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders.”
According to the BJP IT cell chief, “There is public anger in West Bengal due to Mamata Banerjee’s apathy and the Kolkata police’s wrong cover-up attempt.” He also alleged that the R.G. Kar Medical College authorities broke the walls of the room inside the chest medicine department where the junior doctor on duty was brutally raped and murdered, destroying potentially crucial circumstantial evidence that could have led the CBI investigation team to the killers. “Let us reiterate: No woman is safe in Bengal,” Malviya said in his statement.
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