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The Kolkata Police said on Sunday that they launched an investigation into the allegation of the RG Kar victim’s mother that the police had beaten her during a protest march organised by the BJP on the anniversary of her daughter’s rape and murder at a state-run medical college and hospital in the West Bengal capital last year.
Commissioner of Police Manoj Verma, who had initially dismissed the woman’s claims, said the investigation would proceed even without a formal complaint from the victim’s family. “She has been injured, and that’s unfortunate. But why it happened and how it happened is being investigated,” he said. “We are investigating from all angles. CCTV footage is being viewed. It is not possible for us to say anything right now without seeing everything.”
In connection with Saturday’s “Nabanna Abhijan” protest march, the police have registered seven FIRs against BJP leaders and workers, including Kaustab Bagchi and MLAs Ashok Dinda and Agnimitra Pal, on charges that they obstructed and threatened police officers on duty, leading to five of them sustaining injuries.
Bagchi, however, dismissed the cases as politically motivated. “No one is bothered about the FIR filed by Kolkata Police. They are servants, they follow what their lady master asks them to do,” he said.
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and other BJP leaders claim that around 100 workers of the party were injured in the police action.
Adhikari alleged that the victim’s mother had suffered “quite serious” injuries. “A CT scan has been done. An MRI has been done,” he said
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