Bengali-speaking doctor killed by mob in Assam in India

India's ruling party BJP has been responsible for using Hinduness and its Hindu religion as litmus tests for who belongs to India or not. Knowing that the tea-growing region of Assam, near Bangladesh, has a sizable Muslim population who mostly speak Bengali, language was next used as a litmus test to who is an Assamese or who can belong to Assam. As a result millions of Muslims, born and brought up, including retiring as government officers in the Indian Armed forces, post offices, police force and civil services, were all left out as non-citizens in a recent count. They are now subject to deportation to Bangladesh.
Once the recent poll showed that there were more Bengali-speaking Hindus than Muslims, the Hindutvadi supremacists have since been trying to include their fellow co-religionist Hindus as legitimate citizens to stay in Assam but not the Muslims, once again unmasking their hateful bigotry against Muslims.
As expected, even Bengali-speaking Hindus are not safe in Assam where ethnic and religion based lynching has become rather common. Here below is the latest news from Assam:

Doctor Deven Dutta, 73, died of his injuries after he was thrashed on Saturday by the workers of the tea estate in Assam because he was not present when a temporary worker died at the estate hospital.
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21 Arrested For Mob Killing Of 73-Year-Old Doctor At Tea Estate In Assam
 

Assam's Jorhat mob killing: Deven Dutta, 73, died of his injuries after he was thrashed by the workers of the tea estate because he was not present when a temporary worker died at the estate hospital

 
Jorhat Killing: Deven Dutta was beaten to death by workers of a tea estate in Jorhat, Assam

Guwahati: 

Highlights

  1. Deven Dutta, 73, died of his injuries after he was thrashed on Saturday
  2. IMA has called a strike, including withdrawal of emergency services
  3. The tea estate in Assam's Jorhat has been locked down for now
Two days after the doctor of a tea estate in Assam was beaten to death by a mob of 250, 21 people have been arrested, the police said. The Indian Medical Association has called a strike, including withdrawal of emergency services, on Tuesday. The tea estate in Assam's Jorhat, 300 km from main city Guwahati, has been locked down for now by the management over safety concerns.
Deven Dutta, 73, died of his injuries after he was thrashed on Saturday by the workers of the tea estate because he was not present when a temporary worker died at the estate hospital.
"The garden doctor was assaulted following the death of Somra Majhi, who was being treated at the estate's hospital," Jorhat Deputy Commissioner Roshni Aparanji Korati said.
Somra Majhi, the 33-year-old worker, was taken to the hospital in a critical state around noon on Saturday. At the time, Dr Dutta was not at the hospital and the pharmacist was also on leave. The nurse on duty administered saline. The worker died shortly afterwards.
When Dr Dutta arrived at 3:30 pm, angry workers thrashed him and locked him up in a room in the hospital. The mob allegedly even cut him with glass shards. He was rescued by the police but he died on the way to hospital.
The senior most doctor in Jorhat, Dr Dutta had retired long ago and was serving on extension at the tea estate.
Teok Tea Estate is a tea garden under Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd, an enterprise carved out of Tata Tea Ltd.
The West Bengal Doctors' Forum condemned the killing. "Dr Dutta had involved himself in the service of his community even after retirement. The people he served thanked him by murdering him in front of the police," it said in a statement.
The doctors' forum said that the community served by Dr Dutta "did not hesitate even once while beating him to extinction".
 
The forum's statement on the incident was particularly scathing. "It took paramilitary forces to evacuate an injured man... such is the strength of the mob in India. Such is the nature of gratitude and natural justice in India. Such is the state of security for medical practitioners in India. In glorious India, the mobs remain our future patients," it read, adding that doctors are "not appreciated in India any longer".

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