The family of the trainee nurse whose body was found in a private nursing home in West Bengal’s Singur reiterated their demand for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday.
The victim’s father claimed his daughter was raped and murdered inside the hospital and that he has no faith in the current investigation by the sate police.
“I still feel that my daughter was raped and killed after mental and physical torture. Then, in the darkness of the night, before about 11 pm, the OC in charge of the police station there and an employee of the nursing home tried to destroy evidence. We have no faith in the police probe. We once again demand a CBI investigation into this,” he said.
Kolkata | On a nurse found dead at Singur Nursing Home in Hooghly, West Bengal, LoP and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari says, "In my constituency, Nandigram, a villager sent his daughter to Singur in Hooghly for a nursing job. The nursing home authority called her parents to say… pic.twitter.com/OocPA3XugU
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According to police, the woman was found hanging in a room on the third floor of the nursing home on Thursday.
Her body was taken to the Kolkata Medical College Hospital for postmortem, but the family insisted that the autopsy be done at a central hospital and not a state-run facility. As per the family’s request, the autopsy was conducted at AIIMS, Kalyani on Saturday.
The mortal remains of the victim were later taken to her hometown at Nandigram in East Midnapur district and the cremation took place on Saturday evening.
The victim’s family alleged that she was tortured mentally and physically after she uncovered irregularities in the operation of the nursing home. She had joined the hospital just a few days ago.
Hooghly, West Bengal: On the death of a nurse in Singur, Chairperson of Hooghly Organizational Trinamool Congress, MLA Ashima Patra says, "I can't say how she died. The administration is investigating, and the real truth will come out" pic.twitter.com/eXXeNmFJGf
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The nursing home, however, has dismissed the family’s allegations and maintained that it was a case of suicide.
Meanwhile, based on a complaint from the woman’s family, police have already arrested two persons—the nursing home’s owner, Subir Ghora, and the victim’s alleged lover, Radhagovinda Ghatan.
The incident has sparked a political row with both the BJP and the CPI(M) targeting the Mamata Banerjee government over the law and order situation in the state.
