Protests exterior Kolkata CBI workplace demanding justice for RG Kar sufferer

Protesters held demonstrations exterior the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) workplace in Kolkata on Friday (August 1, 2025) demanding justice for RG Kar sufferer. Next month, August 9 will mark a 12 months after the crime as dad and mom of the sufferer and protestors hold looking for justice. 

The protest was organised by Abhaya Mancha (a protest discussion board shaped to demand justice for the RG Kar sufferer) and Joint Platform of Doctors. The protestors questioned why nearly a 12 months later CBI has not been capable of file a supplementary chargesheet and the arrest nonetheless stands at one.  

Protestors tied brooms exterior the CBI’s workplace gate and sang protest songs calling for justice for the sufferer (popularly often called Abhaya). The brooms had been a logo of the protestors demand to “clear out the CBI workplace of corruption in order that they will ship due justice.” 

Abhaya’s father mentioned that the opposite two folks arrested in relation to the crime, Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar and former officer-in-charge of Tala police station Abhijit Mondal received bail as a result of the CBI didn’t file a chargesheet inside the 90-day statutory interval. The two had been arrested for ‘deceptive the investigation’ of the case and delay in submitting the FIR. 

“We doubt if they are going to ever file a supplementary chargesheet. They declare they’re investigating a much bigger conspiracy, however I cannot be alive to witness the outcomes, they are going to proceed the investigation for a lifetime,” Abhaya’s father instructed The Hindu on Friday. 

Dr Subarna Goswami part of Abhaya Mancha and one of many forerunners of the RG Kar protests mentioned that the CBI’s failure to analyze the rape and homicide of a younger physician at RG Kar medical school isn’t an remoted incident. “It is a mirrored image of the bigger fascist construction the place the ruling events will proceed to commit repeated violence towards girls’s our bodies and the state construction will use all its pillars to guard the criminals. This lack of justice, this impunity is definitely deliberate – so that individuals overlook, grow to be discouraged, in order that protests grow to be silent,” Dr Goswami a senior physician added. 

In an earlier dialog with The Hindu, the household had expressed their dissatisfaction with the CBI’s ongoing probe into the case. 

In the rape and homicide of the RG Kar sufferer, a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy has been arrested and despatched to lifetime imprisonment. But each dad and mom of the sufferer and protestors have claimed on a number of events that there was multiple perpetrator within the case. 

On August 9, 2024, a post-graduate feminine trainee physician was discovered useless in a seminar corridor of the chest drugs division on the fourth flooring of the emergency constructing of the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The complete State erupted in protests as the small print of the crime despatched shockwaves throughout the nation.