Bikashranjan Bhattacharya, the lawyer of the parents of the trainee doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata charged that some fraudsters approached the victim’s family under the guise of doctors and forged his name. He made the allegation in a Facebook post on 20th August which read, “As soon as I reached Delhi airport, I received news that a group of crooks, impersonating doctors, met the victim’s father. They forged my name to sign the Supreme Court petition.”
The senior advocate called them “bhakts” (blind followers) and further charged, “I firmly believe they were bhakts of Mamata Banerjee. Those who attempted to misuse my name should be tracked down and questioned. A lot of confidential information could be retrieved from them.”
Bikashranjan Bhattacharya earlier slammed the West Bengal Chief Minister for offering money to the victim’s family and expressed, “You see, the role of the chief minister in the state of West Bengal is very condemnable. Wherever there is a rape, she wants to immediately get into contact with the victim’s family, pay them money and then say everything is over. Unfortunately, she has fixed up rate cards for the rape victims. Under the law, they are entitled to compensation, but that should wait until the investigation is over. She attempts to purchase the witnesses. That attempt was also made in this case. The parents of the victim girl refused it (money) because they didn’t want to be a part of the game played by the chief minister.”
Notably, during a hearing on the case in Calcutta High Court, he mentioned that the mob which attacked the hospital wanted to deface the seminar room where the heinous crime took place. However, they ended up on the wrong floor, confused about the floor number. The seminar room is situated on the third floor of the building, which is known in Bengali as the 4th Story (4th Tala). As a result, they entered the building’s third story, which is actually the second floor and destroyed rooms there. The attorney asserted that this demonstrated that the mob’s attack on the wrong floor as they intended to vandalise the seminar room was premeditated to ruin the crime scene and eliminate any evidence.
Afterwards, a video of the assault on the institution surfaced in which an individual could be heard saying, “Let’s go to the seminar room,” as the unruly crowd vandalised the place. At least eighteen departments including the emergency room, intensive care unit, and high-dependency unit as well as the storage room, male wards, washrooms and even CCTV cameras were broken. The police were heavily outnumbered because, according to them, there were about 7000 individuals in the violent throng. They had to hide in bathrooms and ask nurses for help to save their lives.
Bikashranjan Bhattacharya is also a Rajya Sabha MP from the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
