The BJP has welcomed the Calcutta High Court's order to transfer to the CBI the investigation into the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The horrifying incident has sparked nationwide protests as doctors demand safety and security on duty.
Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in Bengal Assembly, had filed a Public Interest Litigation in the high court, seeking a CBI probe into the case.
Responding to the court's ruling, Mr Adhikari said in a social media post that the "last bastion of justice" in Bengal has come forward. "In a PIL filed by me along with two others, the cat and mouse game that the State Government was playing to save the skin of the perpetrators by conjuring a cover-up story and a scapegoat, will no longer hold water. The culprits will be caught and punished now," the BJP leader said.