Kolkata Doctor Rape, Murder Case: Police Issues Notices To 200 People For Spreading Misinformation
Police sends notice to 200 people for spreading misinformation!
After the gruesome rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata on August 9, people have become restless across the country wanting justice for the deceased woman. In recent developments, Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, BJP’s Locket Chatterjee and two senior doctors named Dr Kunal Sarkar and Burdwan Chief Medical Officer Subarno Goswami were among the 200 or so people whom police summoned on Sunday on suspicion of ‘spreading misinformation’ on the RG Kar rape and murder case and ‘revealing the victim’s identity.’
2 MPs, 198 Others Get Police Notices
Sukhendu Shekhar Roy put up a post on X (Formerly Twitter) demanding custodial questions from former RG Kar Hospital and College principal Sandeep Gosh and city police commissioner Vineet Goyal to know everything about the suicide story that surfaced on the internet before the actual crime came out. In the same post, he also questioned why sniffer dogs were used in the investigation three days after the rape-murder case.
Dr Kunal Sarkar, the vice-chairperson of Medica Hospital, received a summon on August 14 YouTube video in which he was seen expressing pain over the rape and murder of the 31-year-old trainee doctor questioning the hurried post-mortem and cremation of her and even used the word gang-rape. Goswami acknowledged that he had received the summons, called it an attack, and expressed his desire to “gag the voice of whistleblowers”. He said that he would respond to the summons on Monday.
Actor-turned-politician Locket Chatterjee referred to the victim as Tilottama which is not her real name, denied having received any summons. He said that it would be better if they showed the same quickness while investigating the case. Riju Dutta, the party’s spokesperson, soon responded on X, saying, “It doesn’t matter who you are!
Whether you are a lawyer, doctor, former politician, or anybody else. Whether you are INC, TMC, BJP, CPM, or anybody else. As per the legislation, you will be called in if it is determined that you are disseminating false information during an investigation, which could lead to civil unrest and a scenario involving law and order.”
