Kolkata: Miscreants disrupt protest against doctor’s rape and murder, attack demonstrators
The mob attacked police personnel, doctors and others who had gathered to protest the rape and murder of a postgraduate student earlier this month.
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A group of miscreants entered the premises of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata shortly after midnight on Thursday and vandalised the area where protests were taking place against the rape and murder of a junior doctor, The Indian Express reported.
The police said that a group of persons disguised as protestors entered the premises, vandalised property and threw stones at police personnel, PTI reported. They allegedly attacked demonstrators, including doctors, and also damaged police cars.
The mob comprised 5,000 to 7,000 people, according to an official statement. The police claimed that some of them carried the “symbol of a certain political party”, but did not identify the party.
Several police personnel reportedly sustained injuries in the violence.
A large crowd had gathered at the hospital to protest the rape and murder of a junior doctor earlier this month. The 31-year-old junior doctor and postgraduate student was found dead in the seminar hall of the hospital on August 9.
Doctors at the hospital said in a video released on social media that the miscreants entered the area when a group of women doctors planned a protest march, and “attacked whoever was in their way”.
One of the doctors said: '“We also came to know that they entered several wards and hostels. They damaged the entire emergency ward and...
