West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday described the vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as a “shame to civil society,” amid seven days of protests by junior medics over the alleged rape-murder of a trainee doctor.
Around midnight, a group of around 40 people, posing as protesters, entered the hospital, vandalising the emergency department, nursing station, and medicine store, while also damaging CCTV cameras and ransacking a stage where junior doctors had been demonstrating since August 9.
Police have so far detained nine persons for their alleged involvement in the incident.
The BJP criticised police for failing to protect the protesting doctors and prevent the vandalism, demanding that the army be deployed if the TMC government cannot control the situation.