‘Sexual misconduct, threat culture, forceful collection of money’: Doctors, interns and students expelled from R G Kar Medical College

According to the order, the doctors and medical students were found to be guilty of threatening to fail others in university exams, threatening others with ouster from hostel, long hours of physical and mental torture, sexual harassment and misconduct, forcing others to join a particular political party and attend its rallies, forcing students, irrespective of sex, to attend boys’ common room to face “DIASING” (physical and mental torture), forcing juniors to buy drugs and alcohol at odd hours of night, forcing them to perform obscene acts at boys’ common room, forceful collection of money for college events without any audit, forceful exchange of intern/house staff duties for money, threatening to withhold internship completion, lodging of false FIRs against students, some as serious as sexual assault, physical violence on targeted students of Manicktala Hostel at midnight, and use of abusive language even in the name of parents.

After the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College, a section of junior doctors gave written complaints of “threat culture” on the campus. On September 10, the authorities of R G Kar Medical College sent notices to 51 doctors, house staff, and interns for allegedly engaging in behaviour that promotes a culture of intimidation. They were called before an inquiry committee. After a hearing and investigation by the inquiry committee, a report was submitted to the college authorities.