Under fire after the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal Chief Mi...
Under fire after the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that her government will pass a Bill in the Assembly to ensure capital punishment for convicts in rape and murder cases.
“We will move a Bill in the state Assembly within
10 days seeking capital punishment for culprits in rape and murder cases. We
will send it to the Governor, and if he doesn’t pass the Bill, we will sit on
indefinite protest outside the Raj Bhavan. This Bill must be passed… He cannot
evade accountability this time. Why should rapists not be hanged,” Banerjee
asked while addressing an even to mark the foundation day of Trinamool Chhatra
Parishad (TMCP), her party’s students’ wing.
Echoing the statements of Trinamool General
Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee, who spoke just before her, the
Chief Minister questioned the progress made by the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) probing the R.G. Kar rape and murder case, 14 days after
the case was handed over to the probe agency by the Calcutta High Court.
“The progress of the investigation has been ruined
after the case was handed over to the CBI,” the Chief Minister claimed.
She also complimented the Kolkata Police and West
Bengal Police for how they handled the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ on Tuesday, saying: “I salute my police. They maintained
restraint even after they were attacked. They did not fall into the trap of the
BJP which is doing politics over bodies.”
The CM also requested the junior
doctors of Bengal to resume their duties in the state-run hospitals keeping in
mind the interest of the patients going there for treatment.
Describing the rape and murder incident as
thoroughly unfortunate, Banerjee said now it remains to be seen that no errors
are made in the follow-up action in the matter.
“That is why we wanted to complete the
investigation quickly so that the trial could be conducted on a fast-track
basis,” the CM said.
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