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‘Send report to Home Ministry every 2 hours’, Central Government’s instruction to states amid doctors’ protest

The Union Home Ministry has taken a big decision amid the protest by doctors after the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the Government RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. According to the new order of the Home Ministry, now all the states will have to give information about their law and order to the Home Ministry every 2 hours.

In view of the increasing crime in the states, the Home Ministry has taken this decision and issued orders to all the states. In a message sent to the state police forces, the Home Ministry said that the law and order situation of all the states should be monitored in view of the protests. In its order, the Home Ministry has asked all the states to send the law and order report to the Center every 2 hours through email, fax or WhatsApp.

The message sent on Friday said, “Hereinafter, please send two consecutive hourly law and order situation reports in this regard through fax/email/Whatsapp to Ministry of Home Affairs Control Room (New Delhi) from 4 pm today.”

Let us tell you that doctors and other medical staff are protesting in different parts of the country, affecting health facilities. The protesters are insisting on making a central law to investigate violence against health workers, declaring hospitals as safe zones with mandatory security rights, among other demands.

In fact, the incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 has created outrage across the country. Doctors are continuously protesting. On the morning of August 15, during the protest against this heinous crime, the mob vandalized some parts of the hospital.

A woman doctor was brutalised in the seminar hall of RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata on 8-9 August. A 31-year-old post graduate resident doctor posted on duty at the government RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was allegedly sexually assaulted on the night of 8-9 August. She was found unconscious in the seminar hall. She was immediately taken to the doctor, but she died during treatment. There were many injury marks on her body.

The post-mortem report of this case has also come out, which was handed over by the police to the victim’s family. This report talks about the nature of the murder and sexual penetration before it. It was told that the victim was killed by strangulation. She was raped before that. The accused strangled her twice. She died between 3 and 5 in the morning.

Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)

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