The daddy of the deceased physician of the RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on Tuesday wrote to the Kolkata Police Commissioner alleging that the assault on his spouse “by police personnel” in the course of the march to the state secretariat on August 9 was “pre-planned”.
The police, nevertheless, stated they didn’t have any video or photographic proof to substantiate that she was assaulted on that day by a member of the power, and requested the media to offer one if they’ve it.
In an e-mail to Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma, the daddy additionally alleged that he confronted “excessive harassment” as he was requested by officers to method one police station after one other, when he tried to lodge an FIR in reference to the assault.
The march was referred to as by the dad and mom to mark one yr of the rape and homicide of their daughter contained in the state-run RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital, demanding justice for her.
Whereas individuals from numerous walks of life responded to the decision and joined the march by the 1000’s, the state’s Chief of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, additionally participated within the rally together with BJP leaders and MLAs, forgoing social gathering flags.
“The assault on my spouse on August 9 was pre-planned. My spouse might have died in that. I needed to face excessive harassment once I tried to file an FIR by e-mail with the Kolkata Police,” the daddy advised PTI when contacted..
The alleged police excesses in Park Road in central Kolkata left the mom of the sufferer hospitalised with a head damage.
In regards to the alleged harassment he confronted whereas making an attempt to lodge an FIR, the daddy in his letter to Verma referred to a name made by police officer Biswajit Ghosh of New Market Police Station asking him to method the Shakespeare PS to lodge his criticism.
“Then I acquired the primary mail from Ayan Bhowmick of Shakespeare Sarani PS advising me to go to Park Road PS. Then, after eight minutes, I acquired a second e-mail from Mr Bhowmick advising me to go to New Market PS, which had already requested me to go to Shakespeare PS,” the daddy stated.
He additional wrote to Verma, “This can be very unlucky to see this sort of harassment by your police stations. Kindly tell us if you’re declining to register the FIR.
The daddy additionally stated he wished the police to register a Zero FIR, because it appeared there was numerous confusion concerning the jurisdiction of the place of prevalence.
Kolkata Police Joint CP (Headquarters) Meeraj Khalid stated on Tuesday that they may not discover any video the place the mom of the deceased physician was seen being assaulted by the police.
“We now have checked a number of video footage however couldn’t discover any the place the mom may very well be seen being assaulted by the police. We are going to request the media or anyone to share any video footage the place that incident may very well be seen,” Khalid stated.
The IPS officer stated that they had been, nevertheless, investigating how the mom sustained the accidents on her brow, again and fingers.
Khalid stated that the criticism of the daddy was formally accepted by the New Market Police Station.
The mom had alleged that she was roughed up by girls police personnel.
The alleged assault passed off when Kolkata Police baton-charged protesters on the Park Road crossing within the central a part of the town to disperse the group, which was making an attempt to breach police barricades and transfer in direction of Vidyasagar Setu of their bid to succeed in the secretariat on Saturday.
“The police shoved me and pinned me to the bottom. They broke my ‘shankha’ (conventional conch shell bangle) and I sustained damage on my brow,” the sufferer’s mom alleged.
She claimed that 4 to 5 police personnel manhandled her in the course of the scuffle between police and protesters.
