New Delhi:
The Supreme Courtroom, by itself, has taken up the rape-murder case of the Kolkata physician that has shocked the nation and thrown the medical fraternity in a turmoil. A 3-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud will hear the matter on Tuesday.
The case is already being heard by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, which, throughout a listening to final week, ordered that the probe be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, overriding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Sunday ultimatum to the state police. If the police had been unable to unravel the case by Sunday, the CBI will take over, she had stated.
The case went to the Excessive Courtroom after the girl’s dad and mom, and some others, sad with the police investigation, filed an enchantment. The court docket made its displeasure with the police and the administration clear.
Questions have been raised towards the police dealing with of the case for the reason that starting — together with the delay in permitting the ladies’s dad and mom to see the physique, the postmortem report, and the immediate arrest of a civic volunteer, making it an open and shut case.
On and off the report, docs have commented that the extent of the girl’s accidents point out the involvement of multiple attacker. There have additionally been reviews that the police cremated the physique in a rush, which the Kolkata Police have denied.
The state’s Opposition BJP has been alleging that the police is concerned in a large cover-up to guard the responsible. Their allegation acquired a lift after a midnight assault on the hospital on August 15, because the statewide girls’s “Reclaim the Night time” demonstration was on. With the attackers wrecking the emergency division, the BJP stated it was one other try at obliterating proof.
In a social media submit as we speak, Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the viscera of the physician was “modified” by the Kolkata Police. He additionally alleged tampering of different proof.
The next info that I’ve gathered from my varied dependable sources may be germane for the aim of Investigation undertaken by the @CBIHeadquarters:-
1. The viscera of the deceased sufferer Physician has been modified by the @KolkataPolice within the identify of…
— Suvendu Adhikari (@SuvenduWB) August 17, 2024
The 31-year-old physician was murdered early on the morning of August 9.
After a 36-hour shift, the second-year postgrad had gone to an empty seminar room alone on Thursday evening to get some relaxation. The hospital has no on-call room. Apparently she had dropped off to sleep there.
Her partially clothed physique, bearing a number of accidents, was discovered there the following morning.
The prime suspect is Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer with Kolkata Police who was stationed on the police outpost at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital and had entry to all departments.
He was arrested on foundation of CCTV footage that confirmed him getting into the constructing the place the physician was discovered murdered. A Bluetooth headset discovered subsequent to the girl’s physique was seen on his neck within the CCTV footage. It was discovered to be paired together with his telephone as effectively.