CBI's Late-Night Move Caps High Drama Over Mamata Banerjee-Doctors Meeting

Leader of the Opposition in Bengal Assembly, BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, drew a connection between the cancelled meeting between the Chief Minister and the doctors, and the late-night arrests.

Saturday was a day of dramatic developments in the Kolkata doctor's rape-murder case and the protests surrounding the heinous crime. In the afternoon, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a surprise visit to the state health secretariat, where doctors have been protesting in demand of justice for their colleague, and the removal of several top officials. The Chief Minister invited the doctors for talks last evening. The doctors reached her residence, but the talks could not be held due to differences over whether the meeting would be live-streamed. The exact cause for cancellation of the Meeting between the CM and the Junior Doctors is that Mamata Banerjee got demoralized due to the arrest of OC; Tala P.S. and Ex RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh in the Rape and Murder case.She apprehends that the next person in the que may be… pic.twitter.com/4P2zGOpiqX

Amid high drama outside the Chief Minister's home, with Ms Banerjee seen waiting at the door and the doctors under umbrellas outside, the CBI has slapped the charge of evidence tampering on Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape-murder took place. The central agency also arrested Abhijit Mondal, officer-in-charge of Tala police station under which the hospital falls.

The BJP has now alleged that Ms Banerjee called off the meeting with the doctors because she was "demoralised" due to the arrest of Dr Ghosh and the police officer for evidence tampering.