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Toronto’s Bengali community joins global protests over rape and murder at Kolkata Medical College Hospital

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Canada | Tuesday | 10 September 2024

Carrying placards and demanding justice for the victim of barbarous rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, members of the Bengali community in Toronto and those of the Indian Diaspora held a protest at Queen Park in Toronto on Sunday.

The protest demonstration was held to echo anguish and dismay at how this heinous crime against a young woman doctor working to alleviate the suffering of patients while on night duty had taken place on August 9.

Besides Toronto, similar protests in large and small groups were held in more than 100 major cities across all continents to demand justice for the family of the victim. In the United States, peaceful demonstrations were held in more than 50 cities. Reports of similar protests in solidarity with the victim and her family were reported from across Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, England, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Germany.

In Toronto, members of the Bengali community were joined by members of other communities at Queens Park adjoining Ontario’s Provincial Parliament. The protesters, carrying placards, lined up along the park while a musical group played some songs to eulogise the sacrifice of the slain doctor in the service of suffering humanity.

 

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Members of the Bengali community and Indian Diaspora in Toronto held a protest at Queen's Park on Sunday, demanding justice for a young trainee doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
Similar protests were held in over 100 cities across the world, including the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. The protesters, carrying placards, expressed their anguish and dismay at the heinous crime and the initial attempt by the hospital management and police to cover it up.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has since taken over the case, leading to several arrests, including the main suspect and the hospital's Director-Principal. The protests continue to demand justice for the victim and her family.

The protestors later moved inside the Park and raised slogans demanding justice for the victim, a student of chest medicine,  and her family.

The gruesome incident was reported on August 9 when a 31-year-old postgraduate student of chest medicine was brutally assaulted and killed while on duty. The Hospital management and the police allegedly tried to hush up the case as a “suicide” and even allegedly tried to destroy the evidence.

As the protests broke lose over the manner in, which the case was initially handled, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved in to take over the further investigations that led to several arrests, including the main suspect, besides the Director-Principal of the RG Karr Medical College Hospital. Even after a month of the shocking incident, there has been no let-up in protests and demonstrations in support of the victim and justice.

"The news of this heinous crime committed on a young trainee doctor while on duty numbed and shocked each of us at the sheer ruthlessness, brutality and disregard of human life," said Dipti Jain, an organiser of the global protests.

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