Professors condemn arrest of students protesting over RG Kar horror

Two organisations of professors on Friday, October 11 condemned the arrest of nine students for demonstrating near a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, seeking justice over the rape and murder of the doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

In separate statements, the Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) and All Bengal University Teachers’ Association (ABUTA) appealed to the people of the



state to extend their support to the arrested students, and the junior doctors who are on fast unto death in protest “against the rot in the healthcare system”.

The nine students, many of them from Jadavpur University, were arrested near Tridhara Sammilani’s Durga Puja pandal in south Kolkata on Wednesday evening for distributing leaflets and raising slogans, seeking justice for the deceased RG Kar doctor.