Bengal governor moved in medical college lynching case

NGO People for Better Treatment (PBT) Monday urged West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi to ensure "exemplary punishment" for the junior doctors and students if they are found to be involved in the lynching of a man on suspicion that he had stolen a mobile from the hostel of a state-run medical college.

The unidentified man in his mid-20s was lynched and allegedly bobbitised by a group of students and junior doctors in the state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital early Sunday.

Claiming the hand of the ruling Trinamool Congress in the probe into the case, PBT president Kunal Saha said in a memorandum to Tripathi: "Even more shocking, police were unable to arrest a single student/doctor for this horrific mob lynching of modern era underscoring perhaps the influence of evil political pressure from the ruling party."

"We request you to please intervene and investigate this vicious killing and police inaction by an independent body for immediate and exemplary punishment" to the guilty.