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Mamata Banerjee medical report leak: legal notice sent to three doctors
Mamata Banerjee medical report leak: legal notice sent to three doctors
Arka Kumar Nag, counsel for former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, sent a legal notice on Monday, 5 October 2026, to three senior doctors at SSKM Hospital and Bangur Institute of Neurosciences over the alleged public disclosure of her medical records. The notice, addressed to SSKM director Dr Manimoy Bandyopadhyay, Bangur Institute MSVP Dr Pijush Kumar Roy and neurology head Dr Atanu Biswas, alleges a violation of patient-doctor confidentiality and demands action if the disclosure was unauthorised.
The move follows chief minister Suvendu Adhikari displaying medical documents on Saturday, 3 October 2026 and claiming Banerjee had not suffered a leg fracture during the March 2021 Nandigram election campaign. Yespunjab reports Adhikari said a separate investigation would begin after the Nandigram and Rejinagar bypoll results are declared on 9 October. Trinamool Congress legislator Kunal Ghosh has questioned the report's authenticity, suggesting it could have been doctored and that doctors generally do not disclose personal medical information. India TV reports the TMC has rejected the claims as an attempt to influence the by-elections.
Indian Opinion Analysis
India TV frames the story as a ‘major political controversy’ led by Adhikari's allegations and the TMC's rejection, while yespunjab focuses on the legal notice and the specific doctors named, giving space to Kunal Ghosh's questioning of the report's authenticity under a BJP-led administration. Both report the same core facts, but India TV gives more weight to the political back-and-forth, and yespunjab to the procedural and confidentiality angle. The uniform coverage confirms the leak and legal action, the disagreement lies in whether the medical report is genuine. The bypoll results on 9 October will test whether the issue shapes the campaign's closing days.
Yespunjab reports Adhikari said a separate investigation would begin after the bypoll results on 9 October. India TV reports the TMC rejected the claims as lacking substance and intended to influence the by-elections.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): indiatvnews.com (neutral report), yespunjab.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
