Calcutta High Court directs West Bengal Government to interact RG Kar protest face Aniket Mahato at similar hospital as senior resident

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) directed the West Bengal Government to interact Aniket Mahato, one of many outstanding faces of a protest motion over the rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, on the similar medical institution as a senior resident within the Anaesthesiology Department.

“Holding that the choice of the State to deploy Mahato at Raiganj Medical College and Hospital in Uttar Dinajpur district violates the precept of reasonableness,” Justice Biswajit Basu mentioned the State has dedicated a severe fallacious, which calls for intervention.

Setting apart Mahato’s deployment at Raiganj Medical College and Hospital as per a notification of May 27, 2025 as a senior resident, the court docket directed the State to interact him at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital within the Department of Anaesthesiology with fast impact.

A prayer by the State’s lawyer for a keep of operation of the order until October 7, 2025 for shifting an attraction towards the judgment was refused by Justice Basu.

The lawyer for Mahato, who had moved the excessive court docket difficult the State’s determination to publish him in Raiganj, claimed that the petitioner and two different medical doctors have been outstanding faces of the RG Kar motion and have confronted police harassment for his or her function.

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It was claimed that in contravention of the provisions of an SOP formulated by the State for deployment of senior residents on the idea of benefit, the division has “targeted them” out of a complete of 871 medical doctors within the checklist and positioned them in hospitals far-off from the medical establishments opted by them on the time of counselling as “punishment posting.”

Mahato had opted for one of many 4 vacancies at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital within the Department of Anaesthesiology, however the division engaged a lesser meritorious candidate for causes finest recognized to it, Mahato’s lawyer acknowledged.

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The physique of the on-duty post-graduate trainee physician, who was raped and murdered, was discovered within the seminar room of the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024, resulting in countrywide protests.

One individual, Sanjay Roy, was sentenced to imprisonment for all times until the tip of his pure life by the Sealdah periods court docket after having been discovered responsible of the rape and homicide of the physician.