Kolkata Police responds to Babul Supriyo’s allegations – Minister gave false information on Twitter
Responding to Supriyo from the official Twitter handle of Kolkata Police, it has been written, ‘This tweet by Babul Supriyo is completely false and false information. Kolkata Police has not registered a case against Somnath Das.
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Kolkata Police has accused Union Minister Babul Supriyo of spreading lies. Responding to Supriyo from the official Twitter handle of Kolkata Police, it has been written, ‘This tweet by Babul Supriyo is completely false and false information. Kolkata Police has not registered a case against Somnath Das. In fact, the Union Minister had tweeted that the Kolkata Police has registered a case against the video showing the condition of MR Bangur Hospital, which was posted by Somnath Das. He was a suspected patient of Corona. His investigation report was negative. He was discharged from the hospital, after which the police took him into custody.
Babul Supriyo posted the same video of the hospital on Twitter. NDTV does not confirm the authenticity of the video. The video was allegedly taken by a Kovid-19 patient inside an isolation ward of MR Bangur, one of the nodal hospitals in Kolkata. The most shocking part of the video are two bodies lying in the ward, which are waiting to be removed. Even other patients are seen moving around and waiting for the treatment.
The person shooting the video can be heard saying that the bodies have been lying in the ward for two to three hours. One of the dead bodies appears to be covered with plastic wrap. At the same time, the other one is covered with clothes. The patients are seen sitting on both sides of the body. The West Bengal government has prohibited carrying mobile phones inside hospitals since the past day. The government said that this is a risk and that coronavirus infection can go all around. State Chief Secretary Rajiv Sinha said that the use of cell phones inside hospitals has been banned for doctors, health workers and patients. He said that landlines and intercoms will be installed in the isolation ward for the use of patients. BJP has linked this decision of the state government to the viral video.
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Babul Supriyo tweeted the video and asked the Mamta Banerjee government to confirm its truth. Babul Supriyo tweeted that even after this video went viral on all platforms, the state government has not yet claimed that the video is fake or it is not Bangur Hospital. This leads to the belief that this video is indeed correct. Quoting West Bengal senior minister and Trinamool Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee, the news agency PTI said that the veracity of the video needs to be ascertained and if it is found correct, the administration will take appropriate steps. Chatterjee said, “We have to check first whether the video is true or fake, as we all know that BJP is adept at spreading fake videos.”
