KOLKATA: Dad and mom of the RG Kar Hospital junior physician raped and killed final month joined protesters on the hospital late Wednesday.
They walked into the RG Kar Medical School & Hospital at 9.25 pm on Wednesday, lent their voice to Tagore’s ‘Aguner poroshmoni’ and lit candles together with their daughter’s colleagues and buddies to demand for justice. The final time the RG Kar rape-murder sufferer’s dad and mom had been to RG Kar was on Aug 9, when after a seven-hour wait, they’d adopted the hearse to the crematorium.”I want to see all of the culprits lose sleep, as I’ve misplaced mine,” the mom mentioned on Wednesday, because the household huddled collectively on the campus the place they misplaced their daughter.
The sufferer’s dad and mom, her uncle, aunts and two cousin brothers reached RG Kar left at 10:18 pm, referring to the protesting docs “as their very own household who stood by us in our grief”. The ache and anger had been evident after they spoke to reporters. “We reached the hospital (on Aug 9) at 12:10 pm. We left at 7 pm. We wished to protect the physique, nevertheless it was cremated,” the daddy alleged. “What was the hurry to cremate her? After we went to the crematorium, we discovered the fee for her final rites was already carried out,” he added.
An aunt alleged, “That they had nearly hijacked her (the sufferer’s) dad and mom to the principal’s room and made them wait. After we reached the crematorium, we noticed 300-400 police there. After we had been shattered, we had been supplied cash. What was the hurry (to cremate her)?” Her cousin added: “This yr, we had no Rakhi. We would like all culprits to be dropped at justice. And until it’s carried out, we’ll maintain preventing.”
Inside RG Kar hospital, the lights had been put out and candles lit at 9 pm. Amongst those that thronged the hospital had been dad and mom of junior docs. Sodepur couple Soma Das and Pinaki Das, dad and mom of a PGT final-year pupil, got here to R G Kar at 8 pm to take part within the protest. “My son received an opportunity to review in AIIMS Delhi however he selected to review in Kolkata. On Aug 14 night time, he barely survived the vandalism. I had at all times stood by them (the protestors). I’ll come once more,” Soma mentioned.
Wednesday’s protests in RG Kar, the place the agitating junior docs have been agitating since Aug 9, was deliberate solely hours earlier than the Supreme Courtroom’s scheduled Sep 5 listening to. The listening to was rescheduled. Sourav Roy, a protesting junior physician, mentioned: “That is irritating that the Supreme Courtroom has deferred listening to. However this is not going to have an effect on our motion. We had been on the road and can be on the road until all of the calls for are fulfilled. We’ve got no alternative however to belief the judiciary.”
Swagafta Yasmin, one other protesting physician, mentioned: “As we speak’s mass protest was deliberate to control Thursday’s Supreme Courtroom listening to. Any individual rightly mentioned that justice delayed is justice denied, the ‘tarikh pe tarikh’ nature of our judiciary is delaying court docket proceedings.” Soumyodip Roy, one other protesting physician, mentioned: “This is not going to have an effect on our motion as a result of we’re preventing for justice. If we might run this protest for the final 27 days, we are able to proceed it additional.”
