Rahul Gandhi Reacts To Kolkata Doctor's Rape And Murder. Here's What He Said

Rahul Gandhi expressed his shock and outrage over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata and said the attempt to save the accused raises serious questions on the administration.

Amid the uproar over the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor in West Bengal's Kolkata, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday expressed his shock and outrage over the incident and slammed the conduct of the RG Kar Hospital and local authorities over the handling of the incident. The Congress said there is a growing insecurity among the medical community and women across the country and alleged there was an "attempt to save the accused".

In his first reaction since the Thursday night incident, the Raebareli MP said the attempt to save the accused instead of providing justice to the victim raises serious questions on the hospital and the local administration. 

"The entire country is shocked by the gruesome incident of rape and murder of the junior doctor in Kolkata, said the former Congress president, adding there is an atmosphere of insecurity among the doctors' community and women with the revelations about the manner of the cruel and inhuman act against her. The attempt to save the accused instead of providing justice to the victim raises serious questions on the hospital and the local administration," Gandhi, who is also Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, said in a post on X in Hindi.

"This incident has forced us to think that if doctors are not safe in a place like a medical college, then how can the parents send their daughters outside for studies? Why are even the strict laws made after the Nirbhaya case unsuccessful in preventing such crimes," he further asked. 

The Congress leader stressed that every party and every section of the society will have to hold serious discussions and take concrete steps on the continuously increasing incidents against women from "Hathras to Unnao, and from Kathua to Kolkata."

"I stand with the victim's family in their unbearable pain. They should get justice at all costs and the culprits should be given such a punishment that it serves as an example in the society," Gandhi added.

Governor of West Bengal CV Ananda Bose also criticised the handling of the incident at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and said, "It is a shame on entire Bengal, it's a shame to India, shame to humanity...This is not the first time...Government has to take the responsibility all state holders have to come together"

The Case

The body of the woman post-graduate trainee doctor was found inside a seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on the morning of August 9. A civic volunteer was arrested on Saturday in connection with the crime.

Junior doctors across West Bengal continued to cease work on Wednesday, the sixth day on the trot, protesting against the alleged rape and murder of the woman doctor at the state-run medical college and hospital and demanding justice for her. The agitating junior doctors have been pressing for a magisterial probe into the killing of the woman doctor and the removal of senior officials from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Nationwide protests are also being held over the brutal rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in the West Bengal capital. 

Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged rape and murder of the trainee doctor from the Kolkata Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).