The rape and homicide of a trainee physician has led to nationwide strikes by the medical fraternity.
Kolkata:
Kolkata Police have banned gatherings across the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital in Kolkata for seven days amid protests in opposition to the rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician. Part 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (previously Part 144 of the CrPC) has been imposed across the hospital, efficient from Sunday.
In an order launched on Saturday by the Commissioner of Police, Vineet Kumar Goyal, it was said that rallies, conferences, processions, dharnas, demonstrations, and the illegal meeting of 5 or extra individuals are prohibited within the specified space of Kolkata.
“…In train of the facility conferred by Sub-Part (1) of Part 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, learn with Sub-Part (3) of the mentioned Part, I, Vineet Kumar Goyal, Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, being an Govt Justice of the Peace for the Metropolitan space of Kolkata in addition to the district of South 24 Parganas (throughout the limits of the suburbs of Kolkata falling underneath Kolkata police jurisdiction), do hereby prohibit, for a interval of seven (7) days from 18.08.2024 to 24.08.2024, or till additional discover, any illegal meeting of 5 (5) or extra individuals, carrying of lathis, any deadly or different harmful weapons, or the fee of any act more likely to trigger a breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquillity throughout the specified space within the city of Kolkata,” the order said.
The imposition was made “in regard to inputs and knowledge obtained from credible sources, indicating adequate causes for violent demonstrations, rallies, and conferences by a piece of the general public or an organisation, thereby inflicting a breach of peace, disturbance of public tranquillity, well being or security, hazard to human life, and obstruction to docs, nursing workers, medical workers, and lawfully employed individuals within the mentioned space,” the order said.
On 9 August, a postgraduate trainee physician was allegedly raped and murdered whereas on responsibility at RG Kar Medical School in Kolkata, resulting in nationwide strikes by the medical fraternity.
On Wednesday, the protest floor and the hospital campus at RG Kar had been vandalised by a mob, forcing safety personnel to disperse the group.
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