RG Kar crime anniversary: Kolkata Police summons BJP MLA for ‘threatening’ policemen

The Kolkata Police on Tuesday issued summons to BJP MLA and former India cricketer Ashok Dinda to seem earlier than it for allegedly threatening policemen throughout protests to mark the completion of 1 yr of the RG Kar hospital crime, an officer stated.

Dinda has been requested to seem earlier than the officers of New Market Police Station on August 17, he stated.

“Dinda, throughout Saturday's rally, threatened our officers and provoked others to assault our on-duty officers. He additionally assaulted a guard of an IAS officer. He has been summoned to seem earlier than New Market Police Station on August 17,” the officer instructed PTI.
Video footage of Dinda threatening and abusing the cops was seized, he stated.

Seven circumstances — 5 by the Kolkata Police and two by the Howrah Police — have been registered for allegedly obstructing safety personnel from performing their duties, assaulting them and inflicting injury to public properties throughout a march to the West Bengal secretariat on August 9.

Chaos and violent agitation dominated the streets of Kolkata and adjoining Howrah on Saturday, a day that marked the completion of 1 yr of the rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician on the state-run RG Kar hospital, and left the mom of the sufferer hospitalised with a head damage.