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The Calcutta High Court connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) directed the West Bengal Government to prosecute Aniket Mahato, 1 of the salient faces of a protestation question implicit the rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee astatine R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital successful Kolkata, astatine the aforesaid aesculapian constitution arsenic a elder nonmigratory successful the Anaesthesiology Department.
“Holding that the determination of the State to deploy Mahato astatine Raiganj Medical College and Hospital successful Uttar Dinajpur territory violates the rule of reasonableness,” Justice Biswajit Basu said the State has committed a superior wrong, which demands intervention.
Setting speech Mahato's deployment astatine Raiganj Medical College and Hospital arsenic per a notification of May 27, 2025 arsenic a elder resident, the tribunal directed the State to prosecute him astatine RG Kar Medical College and Hospital successful the Department of Anaesthesiology with contiguous effect.
A supplication by the State's lawyer for a enactment of cognition of the bid till October 7, 2025 for moving an entreaty against the judgement was refused by Justice Basu.
The lawyer for Mahato, who had moved the precocious tribunal challenging the State's determination to station him successful Raiganj, claimed that the petitioner and 2 different doctors were salient faces of the RG Kar question and person faced constabulary harassment for their role.
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It was claimed that successful contravention of the provisions of an SOP formulated by the State for deployment of elder residents connected the ground of merit, the section has "targeted them" retired of a full of 871 doctors successful the database and placed them successful hospitals acold distant from the aesculapian institutions opted by them astatine the clip of counselling arsenic "punishment posting."
Mahato had opted for 1 of the 4 vacancies astatine RG Kar Medical College and Hospital successful the Department of Anaesthesiology, but the section engaged a lesser meritorious campaigner for reasons champion known to it, Mahato's lawyer stated.
Kolkata doc rape and murder: Victim had 10 injuries, decease owed to throttling and smothering
The assemblage of the on-duty post-graduate trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered, was recovered successful the seminar country of the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital connected August 9, 2024, starring to countrywide protests.
One person, Sanjay Roy, was sentenced to imprisonment for beingness till the extremity of his earthy beingness by the Sealdah sessions tribunal aft having been recovered blameworthy of the rape and execution of the doctor.
