#383: Kolkata Doctor Found “Gang Raped” & Murdered W/ Broken Pelvis - Hospital Says She Took Her Own Life

26:52So there's lots of netizens that don't trust the police with very good reason. And so they think they must be covering up for someone. A netizen from India comments, that seminar hall is very well frequented. Everyone I spoke to who has worked there believes it's impossible to commit a crime at that scale without immense amount of political backing. It's just not feasible. They're saying it doesn't make sense. You can't commit that type of crime. people are going to hear you people are going to find out people are going to say something unless saying something is more terrifying than not saying something wow and typically in places like West Bengal they're saying that yeah that exists sometimes it's more dangerous to say something right in addition to that a lot of netizens question how was her body not found the entire night nobody heard any screams sure the killer likely the killers smothered her pressed her face against the wall so that she couldn't scream.

27:47But it's so clear, judging by her autopsy, judging by her injuries, that she fought back hard. Nobody heard a struggle. Nobody heard anything suspicious. On top of that, it's reported that Dr. D's parents were not allowed to see their own daughter's body for hours that day. And it's not like they were performing an autopsy during that time. It just felt like they were stalling. Now, there's two ways that people have theorized what's going on. One group, I would say a smaller group, think that Sanjay is a scapegoat. He's completely innocent, not innocent as a person, but innocent in this crime.

28:19They think that he is a very shady, bad character that's easy to trick and manipulate. They probably got him drunk. He doesn't remember anything. They left his Bluetooth there. Perhaps they even asked him to do nasty things to the corpse and then proceeded to just frame everything on him. But most people think that rather than a scapegoat, he's just one of the many parties involved and he is just being thrown under the bus. It's alleged by insider sources, and I don't know how much of this has been verified, but there were some high profile, powerful people that have connections to politicians that have flown out of the country right after Dr.

28:56D's body was found. So they're saying some of the students, some of the other doctors might have very powerful parents and they've flown out of the country after this. but those names are not released i saw some names circulating but i don't know anything about these people right and i don't think most netizens do now one netizen who seems to have some insider knowledge posted online we are suspecting it is the work of an intern the intern has a high political background his family members are of very high status and i'm not going to be able to say his name but i think that's what we're all thinking wow the authorities report there was no reason for Sanjay to be in the hospital at such an odd hour.

29:37So again, everyone on like on the internet, all the netizens are thinking who else is involved? Who else is involved? Meanwhile, the police are like, Sanjay is very weird. You guys, we've arrested him, but we're telling you he's very weird. They found scratch marks on Sanjay's body during the arrest that matched the skin and blood samples that were taken from Dr. D's nails to which they claim he responds with a lot of just hang me if you want. Like he seems rather arrogant. Sanjay's mother said about his arrest if he has agreed then what should i do if people pressure him obviously he will surrender a lot of people stay there i too have spent the entire night at the hospital what can i say like in terms of why are they asking why he was at the hospital still because it seems like he wasn't working during those hours wait so he said hang me if you will like he's admitting to to the crime he's saying that he does not admit to anything and he's just like whatever do whatever you want yeah and his mother keeps continuing he is my son but if he has done such a thing he should be punished he would never tell me anything regarding his work most of the time he is not home my other three daughters are married

30:57so after this the cbi gets involved the cbi is essentially the government it's like the fbi instead of the state local police taking care of it the fbi gets involved it's escalating you know you got more people coming in they're coming in with forensic experts they're coming in with investigators. And one of the questions the CBI has is, was the hospital involved? Which is a crazy, crazy question when you initially think about it. But here, let me give you some information. It's a state-run hospital, meaning government-funded, aka funded by taxpayers. But this hospital has been known for being shady.

31:34According to the Times of India, R.G. Carr Medical College was known to scam sick patients. Apparently, if a patient really needed help, they could pay their way in. Because like I said, it's understaffed. There's not a lot of doctors. People need to wait to get treated. Most of the patients, they can't even afford the care to begin with. But what can you do when you have to save a loved one's life? You'll borrow money. You'll do whatever you can. And the higher ups at the hospital, allegedly they took advantage of that. They're basically extorting money out of sick patients. You want to see a doctor?

32:04Pay me cash under the table on top of all the legitimate medical fees, which even that has been alleged to be falsified. It stated that if two people needed the same test done, they would have one of the patients pay more to be the first one to get that test done. A post starts circulating on the internet. It reads, there's no way to know what actually happened to Dr. D that night. I've tried to piece together a draft from bits and pieces of leaks and clues. I don't know how much of this is true, so you can consider it speculative fiction if you like. By now, everyone surely knows that a downright unethical broker syndicate is at work.

32:40So there's allegations that this hospital is involved in either drug trafficking, sex trafficking, organ trafficking, corpse trafficking, lots of different types. Some think it's a sex trafficking in the hospital, but I believe it's a drug mafia. And by drug mafia, I don't just mean narcotics. I'm talking swapping of hospital medicines for profit. The main mastermind running the Stark Empire is likely the principal of that college. This is all in a viral post. under his protection and supervision all the crimes are carried out with some rising leaders from the huge political party in india the tmcp unit acting as henchmen so basically saying the principal of this hospital is running this whole trafficking ring and the politicians are backing him they're also profiting anyone who found out or protested was silenced by threats of failing the college being banned from staying in the hostel which is effectively getting kicked out because how else can you afford to study or being prevented from taking exams, which again results in losing their futures as doctors.

33:42This went on until Dr. D finally protested against what they were doing. And this was allegedly about a month ago. It said that Dr. D started facing extreme harassment. No administrators or departments tried to help her. And at some point, Dr. D realized that it would be tough for her to ever become a doctor, ever finish her residency if this kept continuing. She asked her family for help. what could her helpless elderly parents even do? Then on her boyfriend's advice, Dr. D started collecting evidence on what the school was doing so that if anything went wrong, she could fight them legally. It said the turning point came when the department found out about this and immediately informed the henchmen from the political party.

34:19They decided that they were going to settle things quickly before it got out of hand. Allegedly, everything went as planned. There was a patient in one of the rooms directly across from the seminar hall. They were moved. Patient was moved to a different room. everything was planned and the face of this fall guy Sanjay was instructed to be seen on CCTV then strict instructions were given to the team of henchmen to ensure that no patient no nurse or anyone else would come near that area during the night until at least eight in the morning the next day while eating dinner one of the other residents suggested Dr.

34:51D sleep in the seminar room and then once she fell asleep in come these four henchmen and their primary goal was to silence her so that if one person spoke up, the others wouldn't follow and the cat wouldn't be let out of the bag. But if a calm, non-confrontational, studious, educated woman is suddenly murdered, the motive would be open to question. Why would she be killed? What did she know? Is the hospital weird? Did she know something she wasn't? So they sought and took up the old age old weapon, R word, to make people think that R word was the motive and murder followed. There is no way that petite Dr.

35:28D would have been able to fight against those four men and the autopsy report itself shows how brutally she was tortured. Then came the twist that makes one shudder to think about. They call in Sanjay to expel his fluids on Dr. D's corpse so that if an investigation did happen, the DNA from the semen would lead them to Sanjay. He was likely tricked and told that this is no crime because you didn't kill her. You didn't essay her while she was alive and necrophilia is technically you're not going to get punished under Indian law. So this is from a netizen? Yes. So this netizen had gone around and collected all the bits and clues of other netizens who have come forward to say, hey, I go to this school and I'm scared to come out and speak because look at what happens.

36:13But these are what I've heard from my other doctors, from our fellow colleagues. And how do people feel about this theory? I would say that a lot of people believe it. Now explains. Yes. So I think there's a lot of levels to that. Even I think the fact that everyone believes it, there must be a reason they believe it. I mean, I'm sure if it was just the most out of left field, crazy conspiracy theory, there would be a lot of people going, guys, we don't even, this is crazy. You guys have your tinfoil hats on. There's just no way. But it's the fact that I would say majority of the comments genuinely believe this.

36:51And then second of all, even if it's not true even if this becomes thoroughly debunked later i think it's a problem that people believe it because that means the system has already been so corrupt that people not even bat an eye but they don't question the validity of it because likely things like this have happened before yeah yeah so the fingers right now are pointing to the top guy in the hospital right the principal of the hospital we're gonna get into him because he's a very weird character and then they left Sanjay's earphones on the ground as if the criminal had knowingly left the most obvious trace behind.

37:26Now, there are reports that Dr. D's car had been vandalized after the murder, and the post further alleges that was done to retrieve and destroy those pieces of evidence that she had been gathering on the hospital. Everything else went according to the script. This is how they planned it. So like I said, there are a lot of netizens who believe that the hospital was up to something shady, perhaps drug trafficking, organ trafficking even. but why? I mean, again, is this just conspiracy talk where we just all sit in a circle and we think about everything? Well, I don't know because let me tell you about the history of RG Carr Medical College.

37:59They've had a string of very bizarre, mysterious deaths like clockwork. In 2001, there was a very strange incident. A young man, a student was found dead, suspended from the ceiling. He was found in the student dorms of the hospital and the police, they quickly closed the student's case as a self-exit case. But everyone around this young man kept pressuring the police to reopen the case and actually investigate because so many weird things had been happening before he died. It's alleged by all of the fellow doctors that he was close with that he discovered this huge pornography ring operating inside of the hospital.

38:34They would invite sex workers to film these videos, but if they couldn't find sex workers, they would allegedly take other women's faces. So they would take either their colleagues' faces or celebrities' faces, and they would grab dead bodies that are kept in the hospital for dissection and learning and strip them down pose them in all sorts of all sorts of positions and deep fake the famous people or the female doctors faces onto their bodies in 2001 i would say that the word it wouldn't be deep fake but they would basically edit so it's not a video deep fake would imply it's more so a video where their mouths are moving and it appears like they are talking but basically editing to the point where you don't know that this celebrity's face had been edited onto the corpse.

39:18Whoa. And I'm sure it's not a great job. It seems like a underground ring where they're just like, hey, buy this for X amount of dollars. Wow. Now, he threatened to expose it and one source would say after his death, we all knew about it, but none of us had the courage to challenge it. But when a close friend of his, another medical student was victimized by the ring, they superimposed her face onto the body of another woman all because one of the guys in the ring tried to ask her out and she said no. After he found out about that he could not control himself. So he threatened to out them and then he was found dead.

39:58Some of the anonymous colleagues state that the group was being protected by powerful politicians but he just couldn't sit and watch all these women get victimized. But before he could even do all of that, before he could try to expose them, he was found dead. and it's reported that his death just does not align with self-exit some sources state that he had a handkerchief stuffed into his throat the door to his room was locked and it had evidence that it was likely forced open recently he was found suspended from a ceiling fan with a very short nylon string that length was too short for him to do this to himself like there was no piece of furniture that could get him that tall up does that make sense yeah yeah yeah so It just, it didn't make any sense, but it was forgotten about.

40:44Then in 2003, just two years later, another staff member from the medical college self-exits by jumping off the roof of the hostel. But before he falls to his death, he allegedly pushes sedatives into his own veins. So he sedates himself, then grabs medical scissors and physically goes in and cuts his veins entirely. And then he jumps. people are like that just doesn't make any sense right he left no note behind it appears that his close friends and family they don't think that he would have self-exited which again i think it's very hard to say who has the that's why it's so dangerous because you never really know what someone is thinking in their mind but these are medical students who think the sequence of events of his self-exit just are very unnatural and very bizarre they sound very strange it's suspected that he too could have found out about some sort of explicit ring that was operating in the hospital in 2016 a professor was found dead inside of his home by the time that the authorities came his body was badly decomposed there were bruises on his face and blood stains on the floor of his room it seems like his death was deemed due to massive heart failure massive heart failure yeah people thought it was weird the bruises on his face the blood on the walls and then just heart failure?

42:06It's odd. Then in 2020, there was another self-exit of a junior doctor who leaped from the building. Then another one in 2020 from a trainee doctor. And then in 2023, just last year, a medical intern overdosed on antidepressants. Everything is being deemed a self-exit, which could be true because this is a hospital that I think nowhere in the world really takes care of their doctors that well considering the type of trauma that they go through to treat patients and the type of pressure that they're under but specifically this hospital also struggles to even give them on-call rooms to provide safe measures for their staff and doctors so yes depression is likely rampant but it's just odd everything is odd and people are just bringing it up again because this hospital is not this squeaky clean hospital yeah another viral post reads, two staff and one intern were running a sex and drug ring in the chest department, which is where Dr.

43:03D was working in the chest medicine department. Dr. D objected and threatened to expose them. And for the last two months, they were harassing her in all the possible ways. Seniors remained silent. The girl complained to her parents that she did not want to go to this college anymore. On that fateful night, those boys went to the seminar room to threaten her. An altercation leads to violence. They kill her to silence her. And now the four boys have been taken in for questioning, but nobody wants to talk about it. Basically saying, let's see what comes out of this. Another claim further alleges, one of the interns who fought with her and then tied her up, breaking her bones and torturing her and everything was a woman, a female intern who was one of the guy's girlfriends.

43:41She helped the male interns break her bones. They were stomping on her to crush her ankles so that she couldn't run because she was fighting back. Then they strangled her to death and the men R-worded her dead body. Then they washed their hands, clean themselves up in a sink, which is now being broken down during hospital renovations. Oh yeah, we're going to get to it. The hospital immediately starts, quote, renovating the crime scene room. That is crazy. The renovation is, I would say, pretty solid, but the rest of the stuff is not verified social media posts. They've just been widely circulating along with some names.

44:17So it does appear that whoever started these posts, it sounds like they are from the school, which is not verification in and of itself, but there are names circulating. So it's not just like random people on the internet, like hee hee, this is what's happening. One netizen gives even more graphic detail. And again, this is not verified, just another post. They state that Dr. D was tortured for six months straight, that they plotted her murder. She was told to sleep in the seminar hall and nobody else was allowed to enter. They let seven to eight drunk people enter as well and they proceeded to grip her hands and feet and stretch them so hard that her pelvic bone broke.

44:51they just grabbed all her limbs and started pulling in opposite directions she was made to lie on her belly and they stomped on her they smashed her skull and the intern girl was also involved then after killing her they went out and told sanjay who was very much into violent and violence and sex workers to go inside the hall and essay her dead body and they wanted his semen to be found inside of her allegedly this post was stated by a professor of rg carr and then someone wrote it into a post is what it appears like another netizen has been begging for clarification on these posts writing please please please if you know anything post anonymously if these are true then expose as much information as you can if it's just a myth then at least debunk it all if you are from rg car please just anonymously say something and nobody's saying anything nobody from the hospital is saying anything publicly they are publicly saying stuff about how this case needs justice.

45:49They've been complaining about the lack of security. They've been complaining about workplace gender violence, but nobody's saying anything about these rumors, which leads a lot of netizens to believe that they are true. And because think about these hospital staff and these doctors, if it is true, if they saw what happened to Dr. D, I don't know if I would post, because it's right next to you. It just happened. The fear is probably running rampant. now if it's not true you could easily come out and say it's not true yeah yeah yeah the hospital is not evil yeah guys or like yeah there's stuff wrong with the hospital but like i don't really believe this like obviously guys this is taking focus away from the real problems of the hospital which is security and blah blah blah blah i feel like that would be very easy for somebody to do right so the fact that nobody's debunking it says more about the validity of these rumors than you know yeah wow which is why i'm including it in this episode again because it's it's very hard to trust the authorities for this case now netizens have again found it odd that nobody's speaking up some netizens have even stated that it's because the people who work there they all tried to speak up before look at what happened in 2001 a few years later in 2016 look at all these instances dr d's father states efforts are on to hide the truth i do not understand why the hospital authorities were delaying the initial investigation we want justice so even the parents are being a little bit cryptic which leads netizens to believe what's going on things are weird yeah that's crazy like this hospital there's must be like it's a hospital school hospital hundreds of people i don't know how many people's in there like it's a lot of people and not only that but this hospital is known to be understaffed so there's a lot of patients usually waiting around demanding to see doctors so there's a lot of activity and that's why the netizen who posted this is a pretty busy hospital that makes it suspicious someone who blatantly commits crimes like that in such a busy area they usually have some sort of powerful backing right it's not the work of some street criminal is how they're implying yeah yeah now let's talk about the principal the principal had a role in stopping the investigation allegedly even by initially telling the parents that it was a self-exit so when the principal sandip gosh was asked about the murder he just asked why did the girl go to the seminar hall was there really no other place didn't she know not to go there at that type of time what yeah that was his initial response and then to make it even worse in india they prefer not to release the names and photos of the victims unless their family expressly wants to but allegedly the principal of the school decides he's going to make that call i from what i can tell from our research it seems like he's the one that initially released her name because her name is out there we're not using it but it's out there wow it's stated that he was the one that revealed the student to the general public on theme with ridiculous responses another state-run hospital released an advisory is what they called it for women in their hospital and school to read and to follow the instructions, which is already frustrating because a woman died in the hospital.

49:07Women don't need advice. Women don't need input. Women need protection and women need men to follow the rules. But the advisory urges women to avoid situations where they are alone. This isn't a workplace, by the way. You don't really get to make that decision. And that first of all, shouldn't even be advice, generally speaking. But imagine you're at work and your manager is like, hey, go down to the stock room and grab some more supplies. And you're like, actually, no, I can't be alone. You would get fired. They further advise the woman to, quote, graciously interact with the public so that you do not attract unnecessary attention of ill-intentioned people.

49:47They state that the female employees and students should act, quote, composed and, quote, interact graciously. This is real. This is real. So just another reminder, Dr. D was graciously taking a brief nap after catering to and saving lives for 36 hours. If that's not graciously interacting with the public, saving their lives, then I don't know what is. Wait, this is after the murder? Yes. They put this out there? Yes. After the murder. Crazy. I mean, who authorized this statement? The rest of the advisory goes on to recommend that female doctors, students, and staff should avoid isolated, poorly lit, and unpopulated areas inside the hospital, inside their own workplace, as if that's a choice they even have.

50:33Again, patient is dying. You think a doctor is going to be like, sorry, it's poorly lit and not many people over there. I'm just going to stay here with my buddy because it's a buddy system. The doctors are further told in this advisory to refrain from leaving their hostel, their rooms, during the night unless it's absolutely necessary again what i mean first of all not even advice you should be giving it's backwards but second of all these doctors are on call they're taking night shifts what do you mean what do you mean you're you're saying hey don't do anything i tell you to do but if you don't do it i'll probably fire you it's like saying come to work but try not to get raped and killed yeah no that's exactly what they said yeah yeah the advisory is all sorts of victim blaming.

51:18It's your standard. What were you wearing? Why did you drink alcohol? Why were you out so late at night? Which is already heinous. But on top of that, it's irrelevant because it doesn't even apply to this case whatsoever. Like, first of all, that should never happen. Second of all, what are you even talking about right now? Dr. D just finished a 36 hour overnight shift at the hospital where she works as a doctor saving lives. She did not leave the hospital. She went to the seminar hall to take a brief rest because there were no dedicated spaces for doctors to recruit from you know saving lives she was not acting ungraciously either and if they're implying she was in a poorly lit isolated area then again all of this sounds like a them problem it sounds like the killer's problem and the facility's problem the advisory was ripped apart the minute it was released i mean why are we still implying that women are responsible for preventing acts of violence towards themselves one netizen wrote their advisory should be for the men and not the woman.

52:14Another netizen writes, how can any female doctor student or staff member ever feel safe in their workplace ever again when they read that this statement is from their bosses? And there's a saying, don't throw stones from glass houses. A lot of allegations start circulating about the principal that he would fail students for no reason at all. If he just didn't like you, he would invite students over to his guest house and supply them with alcohol, which is just creepy. And he needs to be fired for that. And there's really no studying being done at the school. That's the allegation that all these students, they worked their whole life to get to this school.

52:50And it's alleged that the professors will give you a passing grade if you do everything that they want you to do, which usually consists of running their errands, doing their quote, bitch work, if you will. I mean, things that have nothing to do with actual learning. And guess what? The students have to do it because their parents likely put everything on the line. Like this is their only hope for their family. Like they have to become a doctor. the allegations only get worse there was allegedly an investigation into corpses that the students were practicing on because you know most medical facilities they get medical corpses cadavers to practice autopsies on well some of the parents of the body stated that they never gave permission to the hospital to take their loved one's body for these dissections and it became this whole investigation into the chain of command and into the chain of possession and nothing really came of it.

53:40Principal Sandeep Ghosh was the key figure that keeps haunting this medical college because an allegation will form. He will be suspended from being the principal. Then he'll be reinstated almost immediately. And guess who's reinstating him? The people in charge, the politicians, because this is a state-run hospital. So there are likely some strong connections he has to politicians because how does he keep getting reinstated? But the most insidious rumor being that Mr. Sandeep was running some sort of illegal ring out of the hospital that Dr. D found out about. It seems that most people agree that it was likely drug related.

54:17So swapping out the hospital medicines, crazy pain relievers, swapping them out with stuff that is not a real pain reliever, and then selling those. It's alleged that he has close ties with politicians in that area. And in the end, he resigned after three days after the murder. He stated that he cannot take the humiliation and criticism on social media. He believes all the comments are falsely accusing him of things that never happened. He said, I'm being defamed on social media. They've been talking rubbish things about me. That's the reason, you know, I'm resigning. And the girl who died, she was like a daughter to me.

54:52He states, as a parent, I decided to resign. He more or less pouted. And if that's how they feel about his lifetime of work and dedication, then fine, I'll just quit. That's genuinely the energy he was giving. And he immediately resigned and within four hours got a brand new job as the principal in another medical college state run facility in the same city within four hours. He takes his position. He did not resign. No. Just transfer out of the problem. And it actually is a better college from what I can tell. That is crazy. A lot of netizens in the area are saying it's actually more of a promotion than anything.

55:31Yeah. And he's like, I'm out. like i'm not taking care of this no don't come after me yeah yeah but again political ties because if this is how much fire he's under right now and he's still being transferred to a new hospital that means whoever politician he's involved with they're probably very powerful yeah yeah yeah exactly and we don't know who we don't know who and even if they're powerful that's not enough he must have something on them too is the implication by a lot of netizens because yes if these politician friends of his are very powerful and he's in hot water guess what they'd probably turn around and be like okay sorry i don't know how to help you yeah i don't want to be involved but if they're transferring him it's likely a show of i gotta help you out don't say anything yeah so let's uh let's protect each other i mean a lot of netizens are saying he can't even protect his students at this school?

56:28What makes any establishment feel like he's capable now? He's already failed spectacularly. Why give him any benefit of doubt? Thankfully, the students at this new school are not just accepting this. At the new college that he was assigned, they have barricaded and locked his office door so that he cannot get in. One comment argues, the principal is supposed to be the guardian of the doctor in the building. If he doesn't even show empathy, who will? He should be at home, not working elsewhere. Why does the state government protect him. Something feels like it's missing here. Yeah, it also does not help that he is quite dramatic.

56:58He's doing the whole woe is me thing. Gosh goes on to request protection from the Calcutta High Court, claiming that his life is under threat, which has led to a lot of conspiracies. Because again, why would the hospital initially even try to push the self-exit angle to the parents? It's unbelievably dumb that it doesn't even make sense to go with that. It almost begs the question of why? Why push a ridiculous angle like that unless you have something or someone you're trying to protect? If someone has no bias in this case, no sinister motive, I just can't see anyone with any sort of mental capacity beyond the age of two hours old that they would believe that this is a self-exit.

57:38It is also alleged that when the parents first approached the police officers to demand answers, they were offered a monetary settlement. They were told to quickly cremate their daughter's body and it was strongly implied to them that they should not dig into this matter any further. One thing that's important to note is for this case specifically, had this case not been mishandled, nobody would resort to trying to learn information on social media. So this is a case where, I mean, people have to go to social media because they can't trust anything that's being put out right now. It's not a bunch of netizens who are like, oh, let's try to sensationalize this and make all these conspiracy theories.

58:15It's no, truly, you cannot trust anything that's coming out. And I will say the way that the information is being is being spread on the internet, it doesn't feel disorganized. It feels like a very collective measure by a lot of people trying to get the word out there. Which speaking of a tweet starts circulating with a video of some sort of construction work being done. And the caption reads tampering of evidence started in the name of renovation in the chess department of the RG Carr Medical College at nearly 20 meters from crime scene question mark what is need of renovation at this time question mark reconstruction work painting work has already started it's stated that they have started remodeling the seminar hall specifically in the chest medicine department the timing it feels like they're trying to get rid of evidence i mean yeah i don't know how valid the tweet is i believe it but it's just it doesn't make any sense why they would even do that why what are you doing and sure you could argue what if they need to use the room what if they need to save more lives this is a seminar hall it's not in the middle of the emergency department where there's equipment hooked up that you cannot move you need to save patients this is a classroom that they're not even going to need to use in fact because many of the students and the doctors not just from this hospital but all around India and even across the globe there was a whole there was a protest in Times Square in New York City they're trying to strike they're trying to protest what's going on female doctors are saying that all the younger girls are coming up to them asking is this even the right path you said there's a protest at Times Square there was yeah there was a gathering in Times Square yes wow so it seems like a global organizational effort because I mean this is such wow now young girls have been coming up to female doctors asking, is it even worth it?

1:00:12Like, do you know how hard it is to be a doctor, period? Do you know how hard it is to be a doctor, a female doctor in India? It's so hard. Why go through all of that? Why give up everything so you can get essayed and murdered in your workplace? What's the point of doing that? It doesn't make any sense. So now all the doctors have decided to strike, a lot of the male doctors as well. Their demands have been, and they're not even really demands for anything spectacular. Their demands are for safe environments so that doctors can and staff can focus on saving lives, which is not even really a demand.

1:00:48It's not a crazy thing to ask for. One doctor said the hospital has always been our first home. We only go home to the hostels or anywhere to rest. We never imagined it could be this unsafe. Now, after this incident, we are all terrified. Speaking of women make up nearly 30 % of India's doctors and 80 % of the nursing staff. A study also showed 75 % of doctors in India have faced some form of violence at work. There's basically no security in hospitals, which is dangerous for all the doctors, but more so for female doctors. Another female doctor in Calcutta said, it's really bad. There are no resting rooms, no separate toilets either for female doctors.

1:01:30She said, I use the patient's bathrooms or the nurse's toilets if they allow me when I work late. I sometimes sleep in an empty patient bed in the ward or in the cramped waiting room, but she can never really rest. She's always got one eye half open, one ear half listening because a few years ago, she said she was resting in between a 24 hour shift when some random men barged into her room and started touching her body to wake her up. They're like shaking her as if she's their wife or something, shaking her leg, shaking her arm, her, get up, get up, see my relative. Come on, my relative's sick.

1:02:04it's not that they're urgently waking her up that's not the problem she's having just to clarify it's not like hey please you like my my family friend is dying you gotta help hurry it's the fact that they just walk in and feel like they can touch her wherever to wake her up it's not a light tapping on the door it's not a knocking on the bedside table like hello please i'm so sorry it's an emergency it's not a please you gotta help me it's the fact that they're just touching her body as if she works for them belongs to them not works for them but like you get what i'm saying like she's their property or something and i'm sure she felt extra vulnerable since she was asleep technically they could have done other things and she would have been taken off guard she said i was completely shaken by the incident we never imagined it would come to this point though where a doctor would be essayed and murdered in a hospital another female doctor reports that she was alone in the icu when three men came in aggressively forcing their way into her face demanding a controlled substance a drug.

1:03:02She refused, but they kept throwing around very powerful politicians' names and they were so aggressive. She analyzed the situation and knew that her patient's safety was the most important. So she gave in. She gave them the drugs and just wanted them out of there. Another female medical student at RG Carr said that her dad would come to work with her because she didn't feel safe. He wouldn't just drop her off. He wouldn't just pick her up. He would come to work with her and sit in the waiting rooms and then when she needed a break she would sit down next to her dad and fall asleep on his shoulder and he would keep guard no freaking way even the school housing was dangerous she said from dusk a group of boys would gather around the house make very lewd sexual comments as we went in and out for emergencies they would ask us to check their blood pressure because they just wanted us to touch them and for them to touch us and they would peek through our broken bathroom windows.

1:03:57There are some police officers stationed at the public hospitals, but they're quite useless, it appears. She said, once a group of drunk men passed by me and created such a ruckus, one of them even started groping me when I ran to the police officer to complain he had fallen asleep with his gun in his hand. Many doctors, healthcare workers, shared the sentiment of netizens, which is, she was our sister. We cannot let her blood be wasted. Groups have rallied on the streets to peacefully protest. They called it Reclaim the Night. They marched shoulder to shoulder, and this is the eve, the night before India's Independence Day.

1:04:33And a lot of male doctors even said, we don't want independence. We just want security. Like, this is so ironic. It's happening the night before the Independence Day. They were marching not just in Kolkata, but also in the capital of New Delhi. many doctors immediately stopped working across most departments that did not need to treat life-threatening patients with life-threatening conditions. So the emergency departments, they're still open. There's doctors working, but for anything elective, they're striking. One news reporter states, it happened inside the hospital premises. It's a medical college.

1:05:08It's a big deal if you look at it from the perspective of safety and security. The victim's father stated, Those who are protesting right now, they feel like my own sons and daughters. They feel like my own children. Hundreds of doctors took to streets with signs, justice delayed is justice denied. No safety, no duty. Let doctors heal, not deal with violence. We want justice. Doctors save lives, let's save theirs. Hands that heal should not bleed. One doctor said, doctors who work for 36 hours to take care of the patients, it's a very shameful thing to see that such a thing has happened to them.

1:05:43Another protester said, night duty is not an uncommon thing. At a stretch, if a doctor is doing 36-hour duty and taking a five-minute break to rest and this kind of incident is happening to that person, it is horrendous and needs to be condemned. Another protester said, it's a girl who has been raped and murdered in her own safe space. This is not okay. So first, it starts with this candlelit protest by women and men, all holding candles, protesting, seeking justice, demanding answers, young people seeking answers from the government. And it's, I do want to mention there's so much going on. I think the case itself would have caused outrage had it happened anywhere.

1:06:22But you also have to remember that we live in a society, even in the US, where it's like, hey, get a good job as a woman, get a career, don't depend on men, make your own money and you'll be safe. And then this happens in the workplace. Everything that has been told to women has been built on a lie is the feeling. yeah you told me if I don't hang out the hang out with the wrong people you told me if I only study if I wear these types of clothes all I do is go to school all I do is become a doctor and then I get a job and then I can feed my family then everything will be okay and it's like no nothing is okay.

1:07:07There were candles everywhere until there weren't. About 2 ,000 people storm in and they storm into RG Carr near the protest and they destroy the hospital. 2 ,000 people? There's not a direct number. It seems to be about 2 ,000. Some reports say anywhere between 1 ,000 to 2 ,000 men primarily come in. They break up the protests, storm into the hospital. There's videos smashing chairs, tables, breaking windows, flipping over police cars, ransacking the entire emergency department of RGCAR. It's really bad. Literally nothing is left unturned. Everything is smashed. police come in they tear gas the whole place the mob destroys the emergency department the back staff rooms the changing rooms for nurses the pharmacy they also destroyed a big portion of the seminar hall where the crime took place allegedly almost all the cctv cameras were broken now this is where it gets weird okay who are these people yeah what are they doing it doesn't even make any sense who's organizing exactly that is the question that people have everything that all these doctors and students have organized everything is a peaceful protest and you also have to think about the group that we're dealing with we're dealing with hospital staff and doctors they have taken oaths to not harm they're not going to go and harm the property that saves people's lives they're not going to ruin their own hospital it doesn't make sense all of their organization were peaceful protests to get attention to organize global efforts to spread the word about this case that's how they're trying to get help right this mob comes in there have been eyewitness reports that stated that the mobs came in in trucks like you see these not even like pickup trucks they seem like military trucks you know the trucks that you would move big garbage bags and like dumpster trucks and the backs are open yeah and you could fit probably 10 couches in there stacked on top they're just coming there's videos of them coming into the city what so somebody is organizing this okay so they came in went straight to the hospital start destroying everything the police came tear gas yes now the police there's multiple reports that are odd about the police okay so one eyewitness report stated it seemed like the police made way for them whether they were scared or whether they were told to we don't know what do you mean they made way they practically let them in to the hospital that's what an eyewitness said now we don't know if that means they made way because they're like you know what that's a lot of people i'm not getting involved don't look at me this is just my job this is above my pay grade we don't know if it's that or if the police were told to just let these people in okay so thousands of people yes it should be so easy to arrest a bunch of them yeah there have only been 20 arrests 20 something arrest so far nurses that were working the hospital that night said police were hiding in the bathroom yeah they asked us for space to hide in our nursing quarters what yeah and when one nurse was trying to get a police officer to stop because there's patients there's you know there's hospital staff here the police were like your safety is your priority what yeah he's like you worry about yourself, I'm going to worry about me.

1:10:37Doctors and nurses have been injured by the mob. So now there's multiple theories circulating online, right? Which is that this mob either came in to destroy evidence inside the hospital because it would be very suspicious. All eyes are on this hospital right now. If the hospital starts destroying evidence, doing things, overturning stuff, getting rid of papers, getting rid of the medicine that's been swapped allegedly, then it would be very suspicious. However, if you have a thousand people coming in, even if you find medicine that's been quote swapped, then you could be like, yeah, well, the chain of command has been broken.

1:11:10We don't know who's touched that. Anyone could have touched that. Anyone could have come in and done that. It could have been one of the one to 2000 people that came in. So it seems like many netizens believe it wasn't an effort to destroy evidence. And the second part is now the politicians are pointing fingers at each other. yeah so you've got the party and power now i'm not much of a politics person i i find it very hard to grasp especially when it's not in the region that i live in right because it's it's always a little bit harder there's so much nuance and then you also have to know which news outlets are biased in india to which political party like in the u.s the news outlets they all like one political party right so i i couldn't i can't tell you too much confidently but it seems like the party in power of West Bengal right now is alleging that the opposite, the opposing party sent in the mob to make their government look even worse.

1:12:06And then the opposing party is alleging that the party in power set in the mob to destroy evidence or to break up the protest and give a bad name to the protesters so that they can, you know, they always want to give a bad name to protesters. That happens in the US as well. Wow, this is so, just everything is so complicated. Yeah, yeah. And this is just what I know. If there's anything you can clarify for me or additional information, please leave it in the comments. It was really rough because we kept thinking, okay, which ones are biased? Nothing can be really confirmed because a lot of the developments are on social media.

1:12:45Everyone wants to remain anonymous for their safety, which is so understandable. So it's just been very difficult. And a high court chief justice questioned the state government. So the current party in power on how they could let this happen, how they could not protect the hospital or its workers during this mob after Dr. D's murder. They asked at this point, how are doctors going to try and work without fear? The government in power, the people in power pushed back, saying that they had all these barriers in place to prevent vandalism or a mob. But suddenly about 7000 people came storming in.

1:13:18They did what they could. they fired tear gas police officials were getting injured they had they tried but it's 7 000 people to which the high court pushed back if 7 000 people were able to enter and do this it's hard to believe that state failure wasn't there the argument being that maybe it's more acceptable if 15 people slip through the cracks but if you're talking 7 000 people the organization that would be required to even get to the location you're telling me no police officers saw them coming in they're saying it's just a lack of security entirely which i will say it doesn't seem to be 7 000 people most sources that i could find said anywhere between one to two thousand which is still an insane amount of organization the police commissioner made a statement for the mob as well this is the kakata police commissioner if you say it is a failure of assessment the entire protest was supposed to have been a very peaceful protest that is my understanding there There was no such intelligence.

1:14:12We also made an assessment on the basis of whatever is available. We deploy our resources and try to see what that law and order is maintained. So the assessment failure is not the first time it has happened, whether in Kolkata or elsewhere. They do happen at times. There's adequate security and we are committed to it. Now, I will say that most Indian netizens, they're not trying to get political. They're not trying to say, I defend the people in power. I defend the opposing party. They're not even putting their political biases. I would say across the board, most Indian netizens feel like everybody in power is just messing things up.

1:14:48They're so corrupt. Most of them are corrupt is the sentiment I'm getting. So they're not saying, no, this party is arguing this party. They're like, no, we hate all of you. We want justice. We don't care about your political party. It seems like everybody's just trying to play the blame game right now. If one politician is asked about the situation, like the one in power right now, they'll respond. what about you? What about sexual violence in your state? Another politician who's part of the ruling party, he hit back, tell me one state where rape has never happened. Difference is in other states, nobody took action, but we did.

1:15:27So yeah, regardless of political affiliations, that's kind of a wild statement to make. So as for where we are now, it seems that a total of 20 plus arrests have been made so far in regards to the case, though it does appear most of them have to do with vandalism rather than the initial crime or some sort of trafficking ring, which makes it seem like the CBI is coming in and making arrests. But a CBI agent stated, we are looking into data by Sanjay's phone to ascertain whether or not he made any video or internet voice calls. They further state, the parents told us they suspect the involvement of multiple people behind the essay and murder of their daughter.

1:16:04They have given names of a few interns and doctors who worked with her at the hospital, we have identified at least 30 suspects and have started questioning them. The police are also now seemingly backtracking on everything. They say, we never said there was only one person. We said we are waiting for scientific evidence. It takes time. They also express their frustrations with the public. They argue that the public just wants them to arrest people. The police commissioner states, he can't just arrest people willy-nilly. He said, I'm angry. I'm extremely angry at what has happened. We have not done anything wrong.

1:16:32Because of this malicious media campaign, the police have lost the trust of the people because of this. They also accused the public of spreading misinformation. I don't know how trustworthy they are. So far, I personally would take everything the police says with a container of salt without the backing of doctors from the hospital or the victim's parents. I just am hesitant to believe anything. But the police has stated that there was a rumor circulating that there were at least three separate men's biological fluids left on Dr. D's body. They argue it is impossible to distinguish semen from three individuals with the naked eye during an autopsy.

1:17:05Some netizens have taken this statement as a fact to show that maybe there is false information spreading about multiple parties being involved or like the way we've gotten there. So they're saying, yeah, maybe there's multiple parties involved, but you can't really say it's because of the biological fluid. But other netizens have picked apart the wording saying nobody was really saying that there were three separate individuals. They said it's probably more than just Sanjay, so you got to arrest the rest. Three is a very specific number. Additionally, nobody was arguing that you could distinguish it with the naked eye during the autopsy.

1:17:37They were saying that one person probably didn't do this on their own. Then the police said, hey, the 150 grams of semen that's been circulating on the internet, that's not true. They're arguing that her uterus weighed 150 grams and someone misread the post-mortem account and it's just been spreading like wildfire. Most netizens are skeptical of the police about this Because they're like, first of all, that's such an odd rumor to be spreading And second of all, even if it's not true We still don't like you And we still feel like there's more than one person involved The end result is what matters Like all this in between doesn't really matter At the end, the netizens are saying Likely more than one person is involved So go get them But the police are doubling down Stating netizens are spreading scientifically and legally impossible information.

1:18:27Police officers further claim that Dr. D's collarbone and pelvis were not broken. They state no broken bones were found in the autopsy, but netizens have argued either that is a flat-out lie based on witness statements that they believe to be much more credible than the police considering it's a hospital. There are probably junior doctors, resident doctors that had seen, or perhaps she had fractures to her bones, which again should not be considered suddenly less severe. Like what are we arguing here? that the crime was a tiny bit, not as bad as we think it is. It's still one of the worst crimes we've recently talked about.

1:19:02What do you mean? They also argued that, because you remember the parents were offered compensation. They argued, no, no, no, we're not trying to shut them up. We're legally obligated to provide compensation for families who have victims of murder, essay, and acid attacks. So, I mean, we had to. but netizens they either believe and they argue that's not the point and if that is the case why didn't you make that clear to the family of the victim clearly they felt like you were pressuring them for some reason maybe you didn't explicitly say it but you could have just told them hey do whatever you want with dr d's body cremate her don't cremate her do whatever you feel you need to do for justice but we are required to give you this legally because you are a family member with a victim of a violent crime this is the law this doesn't stand in your way of justice but the way the family felt it felt like if we take this money we're not going to get justice probably is true yeah i think so too they also blame the media for the actions of the mob that vandalized the hospital stating that the mob was a result of wrong and malicious media campaigns they're saying like the mob was formed because the media was talking about all of this in such a way yeah the calcata police commissioner has stated my deputy commissioner who is protecting the boys is unconscious and what has happened here is because of the wrong malicious media campaign which has been going too far as the calcata police are concerned what have we not done we have never said that there was just one person i cannot arrest any persons on the basis of rumors we have been transparent the case has now been transferred to cbi but the media campaign has put calcata police in poor light i'm telling you from the core of my heart we have not tried to protect anybody and this which is an accurate statement honestly they're not trying to protect their civilians they're not trying to protect doctors or nurses or anybody or dr d but he continues in this case they have done everything and i'm saying everything under my command my men have worked day and night to collect evidence they have collected the best evidence the main accused has been arrested how ironic that he's crying about his reputation like he is so bothered by his reputation right now.

1:21:19It's like the principal. Yeah. Yeah. So now we still have the questions that the CBI are apparently investigating, which is, was the doctor essayed by one or many? Was the accused alone? Was Sanjay alone in this crime? Was evidence destroyed after the crime? Why was the murder first reported as a self-exit? Was the hospital involved? And why were the cops only informed the morning after the doctor was murdered? This case, I think it's angering because it was completely preventable. That's the frustrating part. First of all, all SA in murder is preventable. They are not accidents. Someone is deciding that this is okay, and someone has decided that it's worth the consequences.

1:21:58And in many cases, especially for SA alone, the consequences barely exist for perpetrators. Now, side note, regardless of whether or not people believe Sanjay to be the scapegoat or just one of the many assaulters and killers, his former mother-in-law states he is a violent person. He did not care for consequences. And then he was hired by the police after doing all of this. It just, then he's hired by the hospital. The hospital just takes him in. Nobody does a single background check, nothing. I mean, this could have been adverted. The mother-in-law states, had he been arrested for beating my daughter or lost his job for beating my daughter or faced any sort of action for beating my daughter, he might not have been involved in this.

1:22:39He might not have killed her. whether you believe he's the one that killed or not it's just another situation of like really we're doing nothing to protect anybody many people have been comparing this case to the bus rape incident where a young student was gang assayed and murdered on a bus yes but also a lot of people are comparing it to a few other cases that have happened and i don't want to say compare i don't think anyone's sitting there like let me compare which one is worse it's just a reminder of when this happened, we all thought it would never happen again. And here we are. It has happened again.

1:23:17To be more specific, Aruna Shanbagh was a nurse at a big Mumbai hospital. She was in the hospital basement changing clothes when a hospital custodian snuck in, attacked her, choked her with a dog leash and essayed her. He strangled her so brutally that oxygen was cut off from her brain, resulting in a brainstem contusion. Her cervical cord was injured as well as she had complete loss of vision. she was left in an unresponsive state she died from severe brain damage and paralysis her attacker only received seven years in prison when he was released he went on to live a very full life got married and still had a job as a new as a custodian at a new company he also mentioned that he did not like her because she was his superior a woman was his superior i think that's the part he didn't like Then there's Vendana Das, a 23-year-old medical intern who was stabbed with surgical scissors by a drunken patient.

1:24:15She was killed. So it feels like the doctors are told to save everybody, but not a single person tries to save or protect them. And right now, the demands are obviously justice, swift, painful justice to all perpetrators. But also, they want an official written apology from the hospital, which I'm hoping could serve for a lawsuit by the victim's family, a judicial investigation and compensation for the victim's family. Many netizens have commented, the CBI taking over the case should not lead to it being quietly buried. The urgent need of the hour is swift justice and the harshest punishment for the culprits.

1:24:50No one who committed this barbaric act should be spared. One comment reads, the best way to survive in society is to be a criminal or someone with power. Being a commoner is very dangerous. They make it seem like it was her fault, that it's her parents' fault, who have lost their only child to such brutality. Why? Because they're not rich? Because they have no political connections? Because Dr. D was an honest, hardworking woman? I'm beyond saddened. This could have been anyone. It could be anyone. This is the sad state of our country that we call home. You may think that rape is a sexual act, but no, it's a power act to show a woman her place.

1:25:24Until women are safe, half of India is not safe. At this point, it's not just a doctor issue anymore. It's just inhumane. We keep unlocking lower levels of inhumanity year after year. Fools were those who even hoped there would be reforms after all the other cases. It's been 12 years. Nothing has changed since the bus rape incident. I saw some Instagram stories saying it's a crime to be a doctor in this country. No, it's a crime to hope in this country. Another one reads, hell is empty because all the monsters are here. The victim's family have stated that everything that they and their daughter have worked so hard for all their lives, them working hard to give their daughter a chance to succeed in this country, in this world, their daughter, who all she did was give up her whole life to become a doctor.

1:26:10All that was washed away in a night, just gone. And now all they want is justice. They said, till they get justice, their daughter's soul will not be at peace. And that is the current ongoing case of the Kolkata doctor incident. What are your thoughts? If you have any clarifications if anything was mistranslated, miscommunicated, or any additional information that you have, please leave it in the comments. If there's new updates, we're going to try to pin a comment with all of that. But it's just, yeah. What are your thoughts? I'd love to know. And please, please stay safe. And I'll see you in the next one.

1:26:48Bye.