New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- A series of fresh protests erupted at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata after reports of "renovation" being carried out near the site where a resident doctor was raped and murdered. Left-wing groups and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have accused authorities at the RG Kar hospital of attempting to tamper with evidence related to the Kolkata rape, murder case, under the name of "renovation".

The CPI(M)-affiliated Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and Students' Federation of India (SFI) pointed out that renovation work was happening near the seminar room, the scene of the gruesome crime.

The party members gathered at the hospital's Emergency building gate to protest, alleging that the aut...