New Delhi. The Calcutta High Court has handed over the investigation of the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College to the CBI. The court has ordered the Bengal Police to hand over all the documents related to the case to the CBI by tomorrow morning. A bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya told the principal of RG Kar Medical College to go on leave on his own, otherwise the court will order him to be sent on long leave. The court has also called upon the doctors to end their agitation.
#WATCH Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation into RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder incident.
Advocate Koustav Bagchi says, “We are very much happy. We had prayed to the court that there should be a CBI investigation and it should be monitored by the… pic.twitter.com/2ltFEZvvpq
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The court says that the agitation will affect the poor patients coming to government hospitals, so the doctors should return to work. The bench said that we really appreciate the sentiments expressed in this matter by the doctors and medical students and especially those of RG Kar Medical College. But it is the duty of the doctors to treat their patients, so we will appeal that they discuss with the senior officials of the state government and consider withdrawing their agitation. Earlier this morning, during the hearing, the High Court had questioned the Mamata Banerjee government in the dock in this matter, asking why the government is trying to save the principal of the medical college? Has the statement of the principal of RG Kar Medical College been taken in this matter? How will you assure that the investigation will be transparent?
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report carried on 9th August that a junior woman doctor was found dead at the Seminar Hall of the Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on 9th August… The Commission has… pic.twitter.com/Ct4eSVXNzA
— ANI (@ANI) August 13, 2024
Let us tell you that the Principal of the Medical College, Dr. Sandeep Ghosh had resigned from his post yesterday. But soon after his resignation, he has been reappointed in Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital. On the other hand, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of the rape and murder of the female doctor and has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police of West Bengal and has sought a detailed report in the case within two weeks.
