WB: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari welcomes SC's order of constituting NTF, demands 'action against TMC'

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 20 : West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari welcomed Supreme Court's decision of constituting a National Task Force to prepare an action plan to prevent violence against medical professionals and provide safe working conditions and demanded action against TMC in the next hearing in the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata.
"I welcome this step by the Supreme Court. The Court has issued an interim order so that such an incident doesn't repeat. We also expect that the incident that took place on August 9 and also on August 14, by the TMC goons - to vandalise the peaceful protest, action must be taken against it also, in the next hearing. It's all happening by a shared role of the state govt, and Kolkata police...," said Suvendu Adhikari.
"Kolkata police has not allowed final rites of the victim in a manner as per Hindu rituals and told the incident a suicide to family members. So strict action should be taken on this as well during the next hearing of the Supreme Court," he added.
This comes as Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the nation can't wait for another rape and murder for bringing changes on the ground as it formed National Task Force.
"As more and more women join the workforce, the nation cannot wait for another rape for things to change on the ground," the top court said. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and also comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra's observation came while hearing a suo motu cognisance of the rape and murder of a doctor in State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.
SC questioned the West Bengal government for waiting three hours to register the FIR. The top court also pulled the WB govt observing that the name and graphic images of the deceased have been widely circulated on social media without regard to her privacy or dignity.
On 9 August 2024, a thirty-one-year-old postgraduate doctor at RG Kar Medical College Hospital, Kolkata who was on a thirty-six-hour duty shift was murdered and allegedly raped inside the seminar room of the hospital.