Archive · 9 Aug 2026
Bengal to summon slain RG Kar doctor's friends and colleagues
A doctor who was training at a big hospital in India was badly hurt and died.
In the morning, people found her body in a room at the hospital.
Her family, friends and other doctors were very sad and angry.
They asked for a careful investigation.
The state's health department now wants to question the people who were with her that day.
They want to know what happened before she died.
They will also check if there were problems at the hospital.
Another team called the CBI is also investigating the case.
On Sunday, hospitals across the state will be quiet for two minutes to remember her.
Everyone hopes that the truth will finally be found.
West Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said the state health department will summon friends, colleagues and teachers of the slain RG Kar doctor for questioning.
The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee was found dead in the seminar hall of the emergency building of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the morning of August 9, 2024.
The department will probe loopholes in the hospital's chest department and hand its findings to the investigating agencies.
The CBI set up a new SIT which took over the probe after July 7 and recorded statements of several witnesses, including the doctor's parents.
State-run hospitals and clinics across Bengal will observe two minutes' silence at 11am on Sunday in memory of the doctor.
- Who
- West Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee, the CBI's new Special Investigation Team, and the slain 31-year-old doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
- What
- The state health department will summon the slain doctor's friends, colleagues and teachers for a separate inquiry into her rape and murder, and will probe loopholes in the hospital's chest department
- When
- Announced on Saturday; the doctor was killed on the night of August 8-9, 2024; the memorial tribute is planned for Sunday at 11am
- Where
- RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India
- Why
- The department says it has a duty to investigate as the authority under whose jurisdiction the doctor was training, noting the previous government did not think it necessary to investigate
State health department's separate inquiry
Previous government's stance
Need for a separate state investigation
State health department's separate inquiry
The health department says it has a duty and responsibility to probe the case as the authority under whose jurisdiction the doctor was training, and that the previous government did not think it necessary to investigate.
Previous government's stance
The previous government did not consider such an investigation necessary, and the CBI had already questioned the doctor's friends and colleagues.
- Victim
- 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
- Incident
- Raped and murdered; found dead on August 9, 2024
- Location
- Seminar hall of the emergency building, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
- Investigating agency
- CBI, with a new SIT that took over the probe after July 7
- State inquiry
- West Bengal health department's separate probe; summonses not yet issued
- Health minister
- Sharadwat Mukherjee
- Court directive
- Calcutta High Court ordered re-examination of the crime scene and reconstruction of events from the doctor's dinner to her cremation
- Tribute
- Two minutes' silence at 11am Sunday in state-run hospitals and clinics across Bengal