TW: Ex-head of Kolkata medical college, police official arrested in doctor rape case

KOLKATA: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday (September 14) arrested the officer-in-charge of Kolkata’s Tala police station, Abhijit Mondal, and former principal of RG Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh in the gruesome rape and murder case of a trainee doctor.

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Mondal was brought to a local hospital for medical examination after being arrested by the federal police for allegedly tampering with evidence and delaying the registration of FIR (First Information Report) along with Ghosh.

Ghosh resigned as principal of the British colonial-era college, days after the incident became public. He was arrested earlier on September 2, on charges of financial irregularities.

The CBI said it has also arrested two vendors of hospital supplies and a close aide of Ghosh in connection with the case.

Protesting doctors chanted slogans near the Health and Family Welfare Department of West Bengal as they vowed to sit on strikes despite the Supreme Court’s order for doctors to resume work by September 10.

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Although tougher laws were introduced after the 2012 brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi, activists say the incident in Kolkata has highlighted how women in India continue to suffer from sexual violence.