RG Kar Protests: Doctor close to ex-principal terrorised students and manipulated exams

De was besides associated with the ruling TMC’s students’ outfit earlier getting suspended.

De was adjacent to arguable erstwhile main of RG Kar hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, who is presently successful jailhouse for alleged corruption and tampering of grounds successful the rape-murder case.

In its report, the probe sheet said: “It is unfortunate that Dr Avik De, with truthful galore allegations of threat, impropriety and unethical behaviour against him, has been a subordinate of the West Bengal Medical Council and progressive successful its Ethical and Penal Committee and besides nominated arsenic a authorities authorities typical successful the West Bengal Pharmacy Council. He has been debarred from entering aggregate aesculapian colleges successful the authorities arsenic a fallout of inquiries done by section authorities and besides suspended by the government. In presumption of these helium should beryllium debarred from some these positions.”

The four-member sheet — comprising Pitbaran Chakraborty, main (NRS Medical College & Hospital; Utpal Dan, main (Diamond Harbour Government Medical College); Ramaprasad Roy, main (Prafulla Chandra Sen Government Medical College, Arambagh); and Avijit Hazra, Dean of Students Affairs, IPGME&R – submitted its study to the Director, Medical Education, connected October 4.

On De’s beingness astatine the transgression country astatine RG Kar Medical College & Hospital connected August 9 aft the 31-year-old inferior doctor’s assemblage was discovered, the sheet successful its study stated: “Dr Avik De did not contradict that helium was contiguous astatine the transgression scene… but said that helium went determination on with different members of the West Bengal Medical Council, without specifying who had called oregon instructed them to visit. He said that helium did not manipulate thing astatine the transgression country and went lone truthful acold arsenic the constabulary permitted them.”

The study indicted De of being progressive successful menace civilization saying “he was a predominant infiltrator successful aesculapian colleges and terrorised students to basal by him and forced them to assistance his followers by manipulation successful exam process and besides imaginable tampering of marks”.

“Because of his presumption of power successful the West Bengal Medical Council, it is imaginable that helium has threatened students and interns regarding aesculapian registration,” the probe sheet said.

The sheet stated that 1 of the 4 students who received Grand Honors from a azygous aesculapian assemblage successful the last MBBS introspection — “a precise challenging task achievable lone by superb students” — “has admitted successful penning that helium is undeserving of expansive honors and achieved the aforesaid due to the fact that of his forced dedication to Dr Avik De, his woman and his associates”.

“This raises suspicion whether the different awardees are genuinely deserving,” the sheet said.

On allegations that miss students of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital were forced to be precocious nighttime parties and were threatened of getting failed successful introspection for “non-cooperation”, the study said that De successful his defence said that “because of his organizational enactment [aami to sangathan kori’] (possibly meaning his relation with Trinamool Chhatra Parishad) helium is known to and interacts with assorted students, doctors and faculty”.

“He denied having immoderate relation successful threatening MBBS students and inferior doctors and said helium was ne'er progressive successful forcing students to enactment successful rallies successful protestation against the transportation of ex-R G Kar main Dr Sandip Ghosh,” the study stated.

“He (De) accepted that his day oregon different functions whitethorn person been celebrated determination (at the assemblage Guest House) though helium could not callback the precise dates of specified functions… He besides said that ‘many’ specified functions are held successful the Guest House with cognition of assemblage authorization though helium could not precisely sanction immoderate azygous different idiosyncratic lawsuit being celebrated there,” the study stated.

“He (De) said that respective people, including students, attended these functions and helium neither threatened anybody to be nor was alert of anybody doing truthful connected his behalf for going to parties successful the Guest House, attending governmental rallies oregon tampering with introspection results,” the study stated.

On the allegation of being progressive successful quality assemblage trafficking, De, the study stated, “had nary comments… arsenic helium had nary engagement with the anatomy section and its mortuary”.

“As per telephonic query with Prof Janaki Das Sarkar, HOD Anatomy, BMCH, the Inquiry Committee has learned an incidental of attempted cadaver smuggling did hap but this was discovered by module successful the nick of clip and informed to the Principal who alerted constabulary and information staff… This occurred successful November 2023 and these 2 bodies are inactive preserved successful the anatomy section successful a sealed state,” the study stated.