The Supreme Court docket has taken suo motu cognisance of the alleged rape and homicide of a girl trainee physician on the R G Kar Medical School and Hospital in Kolkata.
A 3-judge bench presided by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud will hear the matter on August 20, 2024. The bench additionally contains Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
The supplementary trigger listing of the Court docket for August 20 exhibits the “alleged rape and homicide incident of a coach physician in RG Kar Medical School and Hospital, Kolkata and associated points” listed for listening to earlier than the bench, indicating that the Court docket may additionally look into the vandalism by a mob on the hospital on the night time of August 14.
On August 14, a Calcutta Excessive Court docket Division bench of Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya, whereas expressing displeasure over the dealing with of the case, transferred the probe from the Kolkata Police to the CBI.
The Calcutta HC mentioned it will monitor the probe and the CBI could be required to submit a report back to the Court docket in three weeks.
The vandalism passed off when docs had been holding a midnight protest towards the rape and homicide of a junior physician on the hospital. Going through criticism over the violence, the police have launched 76 images of individuals allegedly concerned within the vandalism, and made 30 arrests.
The Indian Express had reported on Sunday that two Trinamool Congress (TMC) employees, a number of youths of their teenagers or 20s, and a few girls, are among the many folks recognized or arrested in reference to the vandalism.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Opposition BJP and the CPI(M) of orchestrating the vandalism on the hospital and trying to obscure the reality by spreading pretend information on social media.
Criticising the police over the mob violence and miscreants vandalising elements of R G Kar Medical School and Hospital, the excessive court docket on August 16 mentioned that it was an absolute failure of state equipment. The HC division bench mentioned it was onerous to consider that the police intelligence didn’t have details about the gathering of seven,000 folks, when the state’s lawyer instructed the Court docket {that a} mob of such a quantity had assembled on the hospital.
The HC bench directed the police and the hospital authority to file separate affidavits narrating the “true state of affairs” on the hospital and added that every one linked issues can be heard throughout the subsequent listening to on August 21.
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