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Doctor commits suicide allegedly provoked by CPM leader in West Bengal

Courtesy: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Doctor-commits-suicide-allegedly-provoked-by-CPM-leader-in-West-Bengal/articleshow/14213040.cms

MIDNAPORE: The wife of a doctor, who committed suicide by consuming an overdose of insulin injection, complained to the police that an influential CPM leader and six doctors of a local medical college provoked him to take his own life.

ASP (HQ) Kalyan Mukherjee said that Shalini Saha, Dr Bikram Saha’s wife, last night in an FIR lodged with the Kotowali police station here alleged that her husband was tormented by CPM state committee member Dipak Sarkar and six doctors of the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital to work for a local hospital run by a charitable organisation.

Dr Saha took an injection of overdose of insulin on June nine and died in a private hospital in Kolkata on June 13, the FIR alleged.

Dr Saha’s wife complained that Dipak Sarkar had been insisting on her husband to work in the Midnapore Paramedical Centre run by a charitable organization which is headed by Sarkar, the police said.

Six other doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital also harassed him and insisted he join the paramedical centre, the police said.

An assistant professor of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Saha was depressed and was declared a psychiatric patient by a board of doctors in the hospital, the hospital officials said.

He did not attend the hospital for the past three years due to his illness, they said.

Sarkar, however, told reporters that he did not know any doctor named Dr Bikram Saha.

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