Kolkata: Aniket Mahato, one of the prominent faces of a protest movement over the rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital here, welcomed Calcutta High Court's direction to the West Bengal government to engage him at the same medical establishment as a senior resident in the Anaesthesiology Department.

Setting aside Mahato's deployment at Raiganj Medical College and Hospital as per a notification of May 27, 2025 as a senior resident, the court of Justice Biswajit Basu on Wednesday directed the state to engage him at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in the Department of Anaesthesiology with immediate effect.

Mahato, while addressing a press conference, said that the judgment vindicated their claim that the decision to transfer him was "politically

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