Kolkata Police on Tuesday issued summons to Bharatiya Janata Get together MLA Ashok Dinda for his remarks made through the ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ rally, held as a part of the protests marking the anniversary of the RG Kar Medical Faculty rape-murder case, information company PTI reported, citing an official.
In the course of the rally, Ashok Dinda allegedly stated BJP staff would “beat up” the police. He additionally stated “the day is just not far, as soon as they get directions from the BJP’s command, they may beat up cops, who’ve to cover behind chief minister Mamata Banerjee”.
The cricketer-turned-politician has been requested to seem earlier than officers on the New Market Police Station on 17 August, the official stated.
“Dinda, throughout Saturday’s rally, threatened our officers and provoked others to assault our on-duty officers. He additionally assaulted a guard of an IAS officer. He has been summoned to seem earlier than New Market Police Station on August 17,” the officer advised PTI.
The RG Kar Medical Faculty rape and homicide incident passed off on August 9 2024, when a 31-year-old feminine postgraduate trainee physician was discovered useless in a seminar room on campus. The case sparked widespread protests and outrage throughout the nation, with many demanding justice for the sufferer. After the Calcutta Excessive Court docket expressed dissatisfaction with the police’s dealing with of the case, the investigation was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has since arrested a number of people.
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Ashok Dinda, through the ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ rally on August 9, stated, “That day is just not far once we must beat up the police as nicely. They are going to be totally thrashed. As soon as the BJP offers directions from the highest, we are going to beat up the police a lot that they must disguise behind Mamata Banerjee.”
West Bengal Police used a lathi cost in opposition to protesters through the rally, which was held to mark the primary anniversary of the rape and homicide of a trainee physician at RG Kar Medical Faculty.
Video footage displaying Dinda threatening and abusing cops was seized, in accordance with officers.
Seven instances have been registered—5 by Kolkata Police and two by Howrah Police—for allegedly obstructing safety personnel, assaulting them, and damaging public property through the march to the West Bengal secretariat on August 9.
Chaos and violent clashes occurred throughout Kolkata and close by Howrah on Saturday, the day marking one 12 months for the reason that rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician on the state-run RG Kar hospital. The unrest left the sufferer’s mom hospitalised with a head damage.
The police and protesters clashed at a number of areas and in phases through the ‘Nabanna Chalo Abhiyan’, a march demanding “justice” for the RG Kar sufferer. The occasion featured at the very least three converging protest processions throughout Kolkata and Howrah.
The sufferer’s father alleged that his spouse was assaulted by girls cops through the rally on 9 August. The occasion was organised to mark the primary anniversary of the RG Kar Medical Faculty rape and homicide incident.
Describing the occasions of the rally as “a tragic incident,” he drew a direct hyperlink between the assault and the tragedy they endured final 12 months.
(With ANI, PTI inputs)
