The National Commission of Women member, Dr. Archana Majumdar, visited the Panskura infirmary successful West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur connected Saturday (September 20), wherever a pistillate contractual unit member was allegedly raped by a elder workfellow wrong the facility.
On September 21, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused that the NCW visits Bengal for the smallest of incidents, but they crook a unsighted oculus erstwhile things hap successful BJP-ruled States
After visiting the installation Dr. Majumdar said that determination was grounds of years of intersexual maltreatment successful the aesculapian facility.
“A parent came seeking justness for her daughter, sexually exploited successful 2008 by the aforesaid accused. Years of intersexual exploitation, spiritual abuse, infirmary syndicate & administrative apathy,” Dr. Majumdar wrote connected societal media grip X. She further added that implicit 40 women, including 2 rape victims deposed successful beforehand of her during her visit.
Dr. Majumdar besides raised alarm astir information lapses astatine the infirmary and said that the State’s strategy “is refusing to aftermath up adjacent aft RG Kar.”
Hitting backmost astatine the sojourn by the NCW team, the Chief Minister criticised Dr Majumdar’s visit. “Even for the smallest incidents, NCW comes to Bengal. But erstwhile things hap successful Bihar and Uttar Pradesh they crook a unsighted eye,” Ms. Banerjee said portion addressing a nationalist gathering.
On Sunday, Congress State President Shubhankar Sarkar went to the Panskura Hospital and asked for an impartial probe into the intersexual maltreatment allegations.
Allegations against the facility’s manager archetypal became nationalist connected Monday (September 15, 2025), aft which the accused Zahir Abbas Khan was arrested. The incidental of intersexual harassment occurred connected September 14..
The alleged incidental took spot astatine the Panskura Super Speciality Hospital. Later, galore women from the installation alleged that the accused utilized to telephone women to his country and sexually maltreatment them.
