Rashtrapati Bhavan responds to SOS electronic mail by mother and father of R.G. Kar sufferer

After a number of makes an attempt to succeed in out to President Droupadi Murmu, the mother and father of the physician who was raped and murdered at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital acquired an electronic mail response from Rashtrapati Bhavan asking them to liaise with the President’s aide to specific their plea.

In the early hours of August 9 final yr, a feminine post-graduate trainee physician was brutally raped and killed on the premises of the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, the place she was on responsibility. Since then, the mother and father of the sufferer had reportedly reached out to Rashtrapati Bhavan thrice, requesting an viewers with the President to assist safe justice for his or her daughter.

“We are dealing with existential threats because of excessive torture. Kindly SAVE US. We have misplaced every part. My daughter was brutally killed. My spouse was brutally attacked on my daughter’s first loss of life anniversary by Kolkata Police,” the mother and father’ final electronic mail to Rashtrapati Bhavan dated August 13 reads, referring to the household’s allegation that the police had grievously injured the sufferer’s mom throughout a protest march on August 9.

In an electronic mail response on August 14, officers of the President’s Secretariat wrote that the petition has been forwarded to the President’s aide, and requested the mother and father to succeed in out to him “for additional data within the matter”.

“We have been combating for justice for our daughter for the final one yr. In our final electronic mail, we had written to the President about that, in addition to in regards to the police heckling us just lately. They have requested us to liaise together with her workplace. The West Bengal Chief Secretary has additionally been included within the electronic mail chain,” the sufferer’s father mentioned.

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Earlier this yr, the bereaved mother and father had travelled to New Delhi looking for an viewers with the President, however to no avail.

On August 7, they met with the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which investigated the rape and homicide case, and is at the moment probing allegations of proof tampering and a bigger conspiracy behind the crime.

“When we questioned the director on lapses within the investigation and expressed our dissatisfaction, they mentioned they may withdraw the case. This is extraordinarily disheartening. When will our daughter get justice?” the sufferer’s father had advised The Hindu on August 8, hours earlier than a protest rally was to go to the State Secretariat to mark one yr of the grotesque crime.