Jadavpur University Teachers Call Cease-Work to Protest Hospital Vandalism

The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association announced a day-long cease-work on Friday to protest the vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. They demand justice for the postgraduate trainee doctor's rape-murder and call for an impartial probe into attacks on students and medics.

The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association has declared a day-long cease-work on Friday to protest the recent vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

In a statement, the association condemned any efforts to hide evidence related to the rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor and called for justice for the victim's family. 'We also demand a high-level impartial investigation into alleged attacks on nursing students and medics by miscreants on the night of August 14-15,' JUTA general secretary Partha Pratim Roy told PTI on Thursday.

To underline these demands, JUTA plans a full day cease-work on August 16, coupled with a sit-in from 1 pm to 3 pm at the administrative building, Aurobindo Bhavan.

Coincidentally, SUCI (Communists) has also called for a 12-hour general strike in the state on the same day over the same issue.

Nurses protested on Thursday morning against the vandalism at the state-run hospital in Kolkata, hours after unidentified miscreants ransacked parts of the establishment where a woman doctor was found dead last week.

Amid midnight protests by women across the state, the emergency ward, nursing station, medicine store, and parts of the outpatients department of the hospital were vandalized following the alleged rape-murder of the doctor in the hospital's seminar hall on August 9. A civic volunteer was arrested the next day in connection with the crime.

On August 13, the Calcutta High Court ordered the immediate transfer of the investigation from Kolkata Police to the CBI.

(With inputs from agencies.)