Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday evening arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) youth wing leader Ashish Pandey over ‘financial irregularities’ in RG Kar hospital. Notably, Pandey was a close aide of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh.

The statue, named 'Cry of the Hour,' was installed on a pedestal near the hospital by the protesting junior doctors of the medical facility.

Paying tribute to the junior trainee doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered in Kolkata in August, a bust titled “Cry of the Hour” was unveiled. However, it evoked a mixed response with many calling it "disrespectful" to the woman's memory.

Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested one person for allegedly threatening and abusing a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Less than two months after the death of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, junior doctors have unveiled a statue of the 31-year-old victim.

Junior doctors installed a statue of the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar hospital on August 9, in a move that has drawn massive backlash.

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The latest protest against the state government marked a fresh escalation of the doctors' ongoing agitation for improved safety measures for healthcare workers.

The accused, who had taken a person injured in a road accident to the hospital, said that a dispute broke out between him and the doctors at the RG Kar Hospital as they were allegedly delaying his treatment.