Police arrested a Son of a TMC councillor in Kalyani in Nadia district for abusing and assaulting junior doctors at a hospital.

According to police, "Goutam Roy, son of local councillor Amar Roy of ward 13 of the Kalyani Municipality, was charged under various sections of the IPC for pointing a gun at a junior doctor the JNM Hospital".

Police added that, he was produced in the court and released on the bail. Some local medical shop-owners assaulted some junior doctors at the JNM Hospital last Monday around midnight, as a fallout of doctor protest over an alleged drug racket running in and around the hospital.

The existence of the drug racket was challenged by the setting up of the fair price medicine shop, said the principal of the Kalyani Medical College Shantanu Bannerjee.

“All medicines are available here with a discount of about 60 to 70 % on MRP. But it obviously put the drug racket in a tight spot. So, the racketeers abused, threatened and in some cases even beat up the junior doctors,” he added.

SDPO, Kalyani, Kaustovdipta Acharjee and SDO, Kalyani, Swapan Kumar Kundu attended a meeting which was held among the college authority, the local police and the local administration.