Amid the intensifying protests on the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the crime is a very big one and the only punishment is that the accused should be hanged.
If the culprit is hanged, then only the people will learn a lesson, the Bengal CM said, adding that no innocent should be punished.
Banerjee said she does not hold the students or doctors responsible for their protests and instead, she accused certain political parties of attempting to incite trouble.
Speaking on the RG Kar murder and the following protests, Mamata said, "Police are looking into the matter. I don't have any complaints against the students or the agitating doctors. But there are certain political parties which are trying to foment trouble. If you go through the video, you will get to see what happened," she said.
"My and the people of Bengal's condolences are with the victim's family... This is a very big crime, and the only punishment for it is that the accused should be hanged, if the culprit is hanged then only people will learn a lesson from it but no innocent should be punished," she added.
Mamata earlier today accused the opposition political parties of being behind the vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
Chaos unfolded in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a group of miscreants forcibly entered the hospital premises and vandalised property and started pelting stones at the police personnel present there.
Around midnight, a group of around 40 people, posing as protesters, entered the hospital, vandalising the emergency department, nursing station, and medicine store, while also damaging CCTV cameras and ransacking a stage where junior doctors had been demonstrating since August 9.