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psychological assessment of Sanjay Roy, the accused in the rape and murder case of a doctor in Kolkata, officials told PTI. Psychological and behavioral specialists from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) have arrived in Kolkata for the assessment. The CBI has already taken Roy into custody and is actively investigating the case. Dr. Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, is being questioned by the CBI for a second consecutive day in connection with the incident. The questioning of Ghosh began on Friday and continued till early Saturday morning around 1:40 AM. The case revolves around the tragic death of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered inside a seminar hall at the state-run hospital. Her body was discovered on August 9. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer, has been arrested in relation to the case.

doctors' strike over the alleged rape and killing of one of their colleagues in a Kolkata hospital is gaining momentum as major private hospitals in Delhi joined the protest on Friday, shutting down their OPDs, elective surgeries and IPD services. Resident doctors in the capital have been on an indefinite strike since Monday. As the strike entered its sixth day on Friday, private hospitals also joined the protest alongside government hospitals. Hospitals like Sir Ganga Ram, Fortis and Apollo have halted their OPD, elective surgeries and IPD services. Dr Ajay Swaroop, chairman of the Board of Management at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said, «We have declared a complete shutdown of OPD, elective OTs and IPD work. Unfortunately, I believe that protests and discontinuation of duties have now become necessary to pressure the authorities and expedite the investigation process, so that justice is not delayed.»

Healthcare services in Gujarat were affected as doctors from government and private hospitals took to the streets on Saturday amid the 24-hour nationwide protest over the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at a Kolkata medical college. Doctors stayed away from the outpatient departments (OPDs) and did not conduct elective surgeries in several hospitals across the state as part of a strike call given by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Gujarat Junior Doctors' Association. Doctors held protest gatherings and took out rallies, shouting slogans demanding justice for the woman doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9. Dr Mona Desai, a former president of the IMA's Ahmedabad chapter, led a delegation of protesting doctors and submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in the state capital Gandhinagar.

cash transactions in business sectors like hotels, luxury brand sales, hospitals and IVF clinics need to be checked in a «non-intrusive» manner, the CBDT has asked the I-T department. The apex body for direct taxes administration in the country — the Central Board of Direct Taxes — has also asked the tax department to undertake «concerted efforts» to recover arrear demands which have been witnessing a «steep rise» since the last financial year. The CBDT recently issued an annual action plan dossier called the central action plan (CAP) 2024-25. Senior officials told PTI that transactions over Rs 2 lakh in cash were required to be reported through a statement of financial transaction (SFT) by financial institutions but that was not happening.

Moreover, the Ministry requested the agitating doctors to resume their duties in the larger public interest and in view of the rising cases of Dengue and Malaria. «The representatives of Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Resident Doctors’ Associations of Governmental Medical Colleges & Hospitals of Delhi met the Ministry in the aftermath of the incident against a resident doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.»

Central Protection Act. Their demonstrations took place at various locations, culminating in a massive protest at the office of the Union Health Minister, at Nirman Bhawan. Read More: Bomb threat in Ambience Mall Gurgaon Out-patient services were disrupted in most of the city's hospitals on Friday, with doctors threatening to escalate their protests by shutting down emergency services if their demands were not met.

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday blamed the BJP and CPI-M for vandalism at the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, aiming to destroy evidence in the seminar hall of the Emergency building on August 14 midnight. Meanwhile, BJP, SUCI, students of various colleges and universities protested throughout the day and demanded justice for the medical student who was raped and murdered at the hospital. Blaming both Left and BJP (Baam-Ram) for vandalism and ransacking at the RG Kar Hospital, she claimed that infrastructure worth ₹50 to 100 crore has been damaged by the Left-BJP miscreants. Reacting sharply, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who was also protesting over the RG Kar vandalism issue today, said, «I challenge the chief minister, if she can prove BJP's involvement in the vandalism, we will leave politics.» However, asked about the miscreants' identity, who were seen heading to the seminar hall in a purported video, Commissioner of Police Vineet Goyel said, «Nothing has been found as of now. We are examining them.» Kolkata Police has arrested 25 persons in connection with the vandalism.

Kolkata Police in connection with the RG Kar vandalism incident, Police Commissioner Vineet Goyel said on Friday. He urged all citizens and all political parties to come up with information about the miscreants behind the vandalism. Goyel urged the media and the people to not pay heed to the rumour mongering which has been going on over the rape and murder of a PG medical student of the hospital and the vandalism incident. The Police Commissioner accepted that there was «failure of assessment» about the crowd size on the 'Reclaim the Night' which was meant to be peaceful. He said, «So many women and people had come from various parts of the city and it was difficult to assess the size of the crowd.» «If you call it a failure of assessment, yes it was. The entire protest was supposed to be peaceful. We are human beings. We also make assessments based on available resources. There was so much security in the location. ACP-I was also present,» he said. " During the 'Reclaim the Night' protest, there were gatherings and spontaneous crowds which had come, with no specific leaders. How many people will gather could not be assessed. We had to deploy our resources throughout the city while a fairly large contingent had assembled at the RG Kar hospital," the Commissioner said.

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Public spaces like hospitals have been found to be unsafe for women. What's more, the authorities' ability/willingness to go beyond lip-service and the motions has been brought into question.

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Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goel on Friday asserted that the force was not trying to shield anyone and it tried to be as transparent as possible in the probe into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at a state-run hospital here. Addressing a press conference, Goel also admitted that despite «sufficient security presence», the police did not expect the protesting crowd to turn violent outside RG Kar Hospital premises in the early hours of August 15, and were initially caught off-guard when a deputy commissioner-ranked officer got injured. The CP said that Kolkata Police has handed over all evidence, including videographed post-mortem to the CBI, which is investigating the case upon orders of the Calcutta High Court. «We are not shielding anyone, and police tried to be as transparent as possible in our probe. We have handed over all evidence related to the case to the CBI. Have faith in the central probe agency,» he said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Friday said atrocities against women in West Bengal, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have shaken the country, and asserted that repeated leniency in cases, political protection to accused and granting of bail or parole to convicts let down women. When government statistics show 86 rapes taking place every day, from whom should women expect protection? she posed in a post in Hindi on 'X'. «Atrocities against women in Kolkata, Bihar, Uttarakhand and UP have shaken the entire country. At this time, women across the country are in grief and anger,» Priyanka Gandhi said on X.

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CBI that a few interns and physicians of the same medical establishment were involved in the crime, an officer said on Friday. The parents also provided the central agency, which is conducting the probe into the case on an order of the Calcutta High Court, with names of those who they suspect to be associated with their daughter's killing in the state-run hospital. «The parents told us that they suspect the involvement of multiple persons behind the sexual assault and murder of their daughter. They have given us names of a few interns and doctors working with their daughter at the RG Kar Hospital,» the CBI officer said.

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The strike disrupted normal life in Siliguri and most shops in the city were closed since 6 pm. A member of SUCI (Communist) Dr Shahriar Alam said, «Today this strike has a huge impact. People have spontaneously responded to our call and throughout Siliguri like the Medical College area, people have not taken out their vehicles, and they have not opened the shops. We can say that the impact is very good. We have called this strike to protest against the heinous incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.»

The NSE Nifty index traded 176.46 points up at 24320.2, while BSE Sensex was up 500.83 points at 79606.71 as of 09:59AM(IST)on August 16.

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Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that 'Ram and Baam' (BJP-CPIM) were responsible for creating the mayhem at RG Kar Hospital on Wednesday night. «Whatever I have seen in the videos...some had the national flag, who are from the BJP, while someone was carrying a DYFI flag,» she said, speaking on the attack at the hospital. She added that fake videos were doing the rounds on social media and urged all to be cautious about such videos. «I am not blaming the students. Some outsider political party elements 'Baam and Ram' (Left and BJP) have come together to make the disturbance. The incident is unfortunate. We will hold a protest procession to demand capital punishment of the accused,» Banerjee said.