The rape and homicide of the Kolkata physician has shaken the nation and sparked huge protests
Kolkata:
It was simply one other morning on the center class family in north Kolkata. The daughter, who had made her mother and father proud by turning into a physician and was finding out additional, was at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital for a protracted shift. Round 11.30 pm the earlier night time, she known as her mom and spoke to her, as all the time. Her mom didn’t delay the decision. She would have, if she knew it was her final.
On the morning of August 9, three calls inside half an hour shattered their little world of contentment and set them off on a combat for justice. NDTV has now accessed audio of the three calls — in Bengali — that oldsters of the 31-year-old physician raped and murdered on the Kolkata hospital obtained that morning. Their voices seize the shock and confusion two aged mother and father went via earlier than they reached the hospital to seek out their daughter useless and brutalised.
The First Name
The mother and father of the rape-murder sufferer have advised the court docket that the primary name got here at 10.53 am. The caller was a lady, who has since been recognized because the Assistant Superintendent of the hospital.
Sufferer’s Father: What has occurred, please inform me
Caller: Her situation may be very unhealthy, please come as quickly as doable
Sufferer’s Father: Please inform us what has occurred
Caller: The physician will say that, you come quick.
Sufferer’s Father: Who’re you?
Caller: I’m the assistant tremendous, not physician
Sufferer’s Father: There are not any medical doctors there?
Caller: I’m the assistant tremendous. We have now introduced your daughter to the Emergency. You come and speak to us.
Sufferer’s Mom: What occurred to her, she was on responsibility
Caller: You come quick, as quickly as doable.
The Second Name
Within the second name, a male voice is heard. By then, the mother and father have already left for the hospital.
Caller: I’m talking from RG Kar (hospital)
Sufferer’s Mom: Sure, please say
Caller: You might be coming, proper?
Sufferer’s Mom: Sure, we’re coming. How is she now?
Caller: You come, we’ll speak, come to RG Kar Hospital’s chest division HOD
Sufferer’s mom: Okay
The Third Name
It was within the third name, when the sufferer’s mother and father have been advised that she had died by suicide. This has come up repeatedly in court docket and judges have requested why the mother and father have been misled. This name was from Assistant Superintendent, who made the primary name.
Sufferer’s Father: Hi there
Caller: That is the Assistant Tremendous.
Sufferer’s Father: Sure
Caller: The matter is that your daughter has in all probability died by suicide. She is useless, police are right here, we’re all right here, please come as quickly as doable.
Sufferer’s Father: We’re coming, immediately
Sufferer’s Mom (screams within the background): My daughter isn’t any extra.
The hospital administration’s communication with the sufferer’s mother and father is one facet of this horrifying incident that has repeatedly come beneath scrutiny in each the Calcutta Excessive Court docket and the Supreme Court docket. Of their petition within the excessive court docket, the mother and father mentioned they have been made to attend for 3 hours. They think that this delay was intentional.
Kolkata Police, nevertheless, has contested this. Their timeline claims that the mother and father reached the hospital at 1 pm they usually have been taken to the seminar corridor, the place the physique was discovered, 10 minutes later. The courts have additionally questioned why the hospital administration, led by then principal Dr Sandip Ghosh, didn’t file a proper police criticism and the cops needed to register an unnatural loss of life case. An FIR was filed solely late at night time after the sufferer’s father filed a proper criticism.
Chatting with NDTV, the sufferer’s father had described the devastating second once they noticed her daughter’s physique. “Solely I do know what I went via after I noticed her. There have been no garments on her physique. She was solely draped in a bedsheet. Her legs have been aside, with one hand on her head,” he had mentioned.
As protests proceed and the politics surrounding the difficulty deepens, the mother and father’ voices over these three name function a reminder to how on the coronary heart of this huge row lies a private tragedy, a household’s lack of a dream, a dream that their daughter was turning to actuality.