New Delhi, November 7 (IANS). R.G. of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give any direction on a request to transfer the trial outside the state in the case of rape and murder of a junior resident doctor at Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. “Yes, we have transferred cases (of gender violence) in Manipur. But we are not doing anything like that here,” a bench headed by Chandrachud remarked while rejecting the oral prayer of the petitioner counsel.
Justice J.B. in the bench. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra were also present. The top court followed the sixth status report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and said it would refrain from making any comments as the investigation is ongoing.
The bench took cognizance of the fact that the trial will begin in a special court in Kolkata from November 11 after framing of charges against Sanjay Roy, the “sole main accused” in the case.
On the morning of August 9 this year, state-run R.G. The process of framing charges was completed on November 4, exactly 87 days after the body of the woman doctor was found in a seminar hall inside the tax complex.
About a month ago, the CBI had filed its first charge sheet against Roy, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, in the case.
In the charge sheet, the CBI did not rule out the possibility of a larger conspiracy behind this heinous crime. It is alleged that evidence was tampered and changed in the initial stage of the investigation conducted by Kolkata Police.
Apart from Roy, the two other people arrested by CBI officials in this case are former medical college principal Sandeep Ghosh and former Tala police station SHO Abhijeet Mandal. RG Kar comes under the jurisdiction of Tala police station.
The main charges against Ghosh and Mandal are initially misleading the police investigation and tampering with evidence. However, later the Calcutta High Court handed over the investigation to the CBI.
The top court asked CBI to file a fresh status report before the next listing date.
Furthermore, it ordered that R.G. The report prepared by the National Task Force (NTF) constituted by the Central Government after the car incident should be made available to the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories and other stakeholders including doctors’ associations.
The bench headed by CJI said that NTF has prepared recommendations in two categories. The first is to prevent violence against medical professionals and provide safe working conditions and the second is to prevent sexual violence against doctors.
“If any State/UT wishes to make any submissions in respect of the recommendations, a brief note of the submissions may be filed with the Court Master through the Standing Counsel within a period of three weeks,” the top court said.
In the hearing held last month, the Supreme Court had emphasized that NTF should complete its work within a reasonable time-frame.
