Calcutta police have arrested a civic volunteer in the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, police sources said on Saturday as doctors across Bengal held protests over the case.
The body of the woman doctor was found inside the seminar hall of the hospital on Friday. The murder with the possibility of sexual assault in a government hospital in the heart of Calcutta has shaken the city.
PTI quoted an unnamed police officer as saying that the arrested person’s “activities are quite suspicious and he seems to be directly involved in the crime".
Television channels said the arrested person was named Sanjay Roy.
Overnight, the Calcutta police’s special investigation team probing the murder had picked up a civic volunteer – civilians who assist the administration – posted at the hospital for interrogation.
Near the postgraduate trainee doctor’s corpse, the cops investigating the case had found part of a pair of headphones, a police source said.
“It is too early to make any comment on the investigation,” said a senior police officer at the Calcutta police headquarters, Lalbazar.
The young doctor’s partially clothed body was found on Friday morning with multiple injuries lying on a blood-soaked carpet.
Junior doctors at various hospitals in Bengal held protest sit-ins and took out processions on Saturday demanding exemplary punishment to those involved in the murder.
Junior doctors, including interns, housestaff and postgraduate trainees held protest sit-ins and processions at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, National Medical College and Hospital and Medical College, Calcutta.
Similar protests were held at hospitals in some districts, including Bardhaman Medical College and Hospital and Bankura Sammilani Medical College.
They demanded exemplary punishment for those involved in the “rape and murder” and security of doctors at the hospitals.
The junior doctors said that emergency services at these hospitals were operational.
The SFI and DYFI, which are CPM's students' and youth wings respectively, said they will hold road blockades across Bengal on Saturday and Sunday to protest the murder.
