Kolkata horror: Getting threats of 'career ruin', claim protesting Bengal junior doctors

NEW DELHI: Bengal junior doctors have alleged that they are receiving threats of their "careers being ruined" if they continue with their agitation to demand justice for "Abhaya", the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital trainee doctor raped and killed last month. The junior doctors, along with senior colleagues from the college, have also reiterated allegations of evidence tampering in the case, reports Anuja Jaiswal.

Addressing a joint news conference Monday with doctors of govt hospitals in Delhi-including AIIMS, RML and Maulana Azad Medical College-a delegation of Bengal junior doctors refused to identify those behind the threats but claimed it was a "nexus of unscrupulous employees of govt hospitals and other vested interests". They said they informed Bengal police.

According to the Bengal junior doctors, the intimidation included warnings to fail them in exams, eviction from hostels and cancellation of internship completion certificates.

They further mentioned that their essential documents required for future study and engagements were being withheld as a means of coercion.

One of the women Bengal doctors told TOI that the environment of threats permeated various medical colleges, and involved a "network" of students, faculty as well as individuals in higher positions in health administration.