RG Kar Hospital Rape Case Live Updates
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a status report in the Supreme Court in its probe into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at a Kolkata hospital. The incident has sparked nationwide strike by doctors. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had on Tuesday said the nation cannot wait for another rape case for changes to occur on the ground, and constituted a National Task Force to ensure the safety of doctors. The top court has resumed hearing the case.
Here are the LIVE updates in Kolkata rape-murder case:
LIVE | Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case To Be Heard Next On September 5
The Supreme Court will resume hearing in the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case on September 5.
Kolkata doctor Rape SC Hearing LiveSibal: Your leader says they will shoot!
CJI: Don't politicize this, the law is taking its course. We are also concerned about the welfare and safety of doctors. We will not such lay down guidelines. We will enforce the protocols
CJI: So far, as the community of the doctors is concerned, they must return to work
SG: We have the statement of a sitting minister of West Bengal. He says that if anything is talked against our leader, fingers will be chopped off.
LIVE: Doctors To Return To Duty, No Coercive Action Against Protesters, Says CourtCJI: Doctors will go back to duty and no coercive action should be taken against those who protested. The government will have to take full care of their safety. National Task Force will also do its work.
LIVE | State Should Not Stop Peaceful Protests, Says Chief Justice
CJI: This court has not stopped the state government from discharging regulatory functions. State should not stop peaceful protests. This court has not injuncted the state from exercising such lawful powers as entrusted in law, however, we categorically affirm that peaceful protests shall not be disturbed and state shall not take action against those peacefully protesting against the incident at RG Kar College.
LIVE | Court Directs Health Secretary To Open Portal For Suggestions
CJI: The suggestions of the representatives be taken by the NTF. We direct a portal to be open at the website of the Health Ministry for the suggestions to be taken by the NTF.
LIVE | Court Orders Sealdah Magistrate To Pass Polygraph Order By Tomorrow
CJI: Kolkata police is looking at the incident of vandalism after the protest at the site. It appears that a request for conducting polygraph test is submitted
CJI orders the ACJM Sealdah to pass the order by 5 pm tomorrow
LIVE | Order Is Being Dictated
Supreme Court bench dictates order
LIVE | Supreme Court's Big Question On Sandip Ghosh- What is the reason for the 14-hour delay in filing the FIR?
- The college principal should have come himself to file the FIR?
- Is he trying to save someone?
- He resigned and was given another college?
Kolkata doctor Rape SC Hearing LiveSibal: we have followed the guidelines to the T
CJI: That doesn't justify lodging FIR at 11.45 pm, body was recovered at 9:30 am
LIVE | Court Reassembles After LunchKapil Sibal requests the bench to allow him to "airdrop" some material. Chief Justice allows.
Kolkata doctor Rape SC Hearing Live
Kapil Sibal: Everything is present in the case diary and the case diary has been given to the CBI as per the High Court's order. The case diary also mentions unnatural death, post-mortem and inquest proceedings. All this is before 11:00 pm, so how can it be challenged? The inquest proceeding (mandatory procedure to be followed after an unnatural death) is of 4:40 PM in the evening.
Live | "Don't Use Social Media To Make An Argument": Supreme CourtSG: State says father did not permit registration of FIR
CJI: It appears then, that at the time of PMR conducted, UD 861 was already done. Why did the IO then say after I reached the police station at night and recorded?
Sibal: He reached the station after the investigation
Counsel interjects to make an argument
CJI: Don't use social media to make argument, we have the PMR before us, don't read what is there on the social media
Kolkata doctor Rape SC Hearing Live
CJI: If police say GD 861 was recorded at night, how does the inquest report refer to the UD earlier than that?
Kolkata doctor Rape SC Hearing Live
CJI: After PMR, and inquest, the body is handed over to mother, after return to the police station a UD case is registered, all police superiors were informed. It appears that initial UD report was registered at 10:10 am, after they received they return to police station at night. FIR was recorded at 11:30 night.
LIVE | Original Case Diary Was Handed Over To CBI After Transfer Order: Kapil SibalSibal: The seizure list also has UD case (Unnatural Death), inquest has it too, PMR (Post Mortem Report), all these documents have it. All is before 11 pm, how can anyone then contend, the inquest is at 4:40 pm?
Sibal: Original CD (Case Diary) was handed over to the CBI at the high court as soon as the transfer order came
Sibal: There is something else we wish to point out, we are just checking that to demonstrate my lords
LIVE | "Conduct Of ASP Is Very Suspicious": Supreme CourtJustice Pardiwala: The conduct of the Assistant Superintendent of Police is also very suspicious. Why did he do this?
CJI: The entry in the police diary is at 5:20 am. The police received information from the hospital that the woman was lying semi-naked at 10:10 am. The medical board gave the opinion that rape took place and the entry in the police diary (GD) shows that the area of the incident was cordoned off after the post-mortem.
Justice Pardiwala asks the West Bengal government when did it mention in the police diary that it was an unnatural death before the FIR.
Kolkata Doctor Rape and Murder Case Live
Justice Pardiwala: The procedure followed by the police in criminal law is not as stated in the CrPC or what I have seen in my 30 years of career. So is it true that unnatural death report was given after the post-mortem.
West Bengal lawyer Kapil Sibal said that no, this is not correct.
RG Kar Hospital Rape Case: Supreme Court Hearing OnCJI :the GD entry of the crime was made at 10:10 am when it was reported through phone that the PG doctor was found unconscious on the third floor.
Chief Justice said- After seeing the victim's body, the board had given its initial opinion that the cause of death could be due to strangulation and sexual assault cannot be ruled out. Despite this, the post-mortem was done between 6-7 pm and the investigation was started after that.
LIVE | "Did Not Come Across A Case Like This In 30 Years' Career": Justice Pardiwala
Justice Pardiwala: The entire procedure followed by your State is something which I have not come across in the 30 years of my career. The first thing, is it true that the UD was recorded at 10:30 hours? second, who is this Assistant Superintendent Non-Medical, her conduct is also very doubtful, why did she act in this manner?
Kolkata Doctor Case News LiveJustice Pardiwala: UD 861/24 was registered at what hours?
Sibal: 1:46 Hours
Justice Pardiwala: From where do you get this?
Justice Pardiwala: Why take so much time? all you need to do is refer to the document at what time the Unnatural Death took place
Justice Pardiwala: Next time, during hearings, please keep a responsible police officer
LIVE | "Very Surprising, Post-Mortem Precedes Registration Of UD (Case)": Supreme CourtJustice Pardiwala: When you start performing the postmortem, it means that its case of unnatural death, UD 861/24 was registered at 23:20 hours, 9th August. The GD entry and FIR were recorded at 11:45 PM, is this true?
Justice Pardiwala: This is very surprising, post-mortem precedes registration of the UD (unnatural death case)!
Kolkata Doctor Case News LiveJustice Misra: Autopsy was conducted on evening hours of 9th, the GD entry of unnatural death recorded at 11:30 at night.
Kapil Sibal: Allow me to place timeline minute by minute
Justice Pardiwala : When was the PMR done?
Kapil Sibal : 6:10-7:10 PM
Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case LiveSG: Senior doctors and victim's colleagues had asked for videography. It means they also felt there was a cover-up.
Sibal: I have a minute-by-minute timeline of what happened
CJI: Do you have the post-mortem report?
SG: Yes, it was given by local police
RG Kar Hospital Rape Case: Everything Was Altered By When We Began Probing: Solicitor GeneralSG: We didn't know there is such report, we entered the investigation on the 5th day, everything was altered.
Sibal: Everything is videographed, not altered
SG: The most shocking fact is that FIR was registered at 11:45 pm after the cremation
Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case Live: CJI Seeks Medical Report Of Accused's InjuryCJI seeks medical report of the accused's injury after reading the status report. The court was told that this is part of the case diary.
SG: FIR was registered after victim's cremation. The crime scene has been altered.
LIVE | Chief Justice Reads CBI Report
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud reads status report submitted by CBI.
LIVE | Doctors In Kolkata Hospital Still Feel Terrorised: Counsel To Supreme CourtCounsel: Doctors in the (RG Kar) hospital are still feeling terrorised
SG: Let names be given to me. I will ensure that the CISF sees
CJI: But targeted by whom?
Counsel: By members of the administration, people in the hospital and goons
LIVE | "We Know Doctors Work Over 36 Hours": Supreme Court
"We have referred to the working conditions in general. We have gone to public hospitals. I have slept on the floor of a government hospital when one of my family members was sick. We know that doctors work over 36 hours": CJI
"The duty is almost 48 hours, then you are neither in a physical or mental state to resist if somebody is teasing you. I am not even going into serious crimes": Counsel
The Supreme Court asks various organizations and associations of doctors to submit their names so that the National Task Force can talk to them.
LIVE | Will Ensure No Action Once Doctors Return To Work: Supreme Court
CJI: We will pass some general order. Once the doctors resume work, we will prevail upon the authorities not to take any adverse action. Public Health Infrastructure must become functional.
Resident Doctors In National Task Force?
Counsel urges to include resident doctors in NTF
CJI: If we ask representatives to be part of the NTF, it becomes impossible to work. There are very senior women doctors in the NTF, they have worked for a very long time in healthcare. The committee will hear all doctors and their representatives.
LIVE | Doctors Must Resume To Work: Chief Justice
CJI: Poor people cannot be left to the lurch and doctors must resume to work. We will pass a general order that there will be no victimisation. They must first come back to duty. Resident doctors are young doctors, they should understand and return to work.
LIVE: Ex-RG Kar Hospital Head Arrives For Questioning In 7th Day In Row
Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, arrives for questioning at the CBI's office in CGO Complex in Kolkata for the seventh day of questioning.
LIVE: Supreme Court Begins Hearing Kolkata Horror Case
Supreme Court resumes hearing the rape-murder case of a doctor in Kolkata. A bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the case.
CBI Submits Status Report In Sealed Cover To Supreme Court In Kolkata Horror CaseThe CBI and the Kolkata Police have submitted their report in a sealed cover to the Supreme Court. As per the court's direction, the CBI had filed a status report about the progress of the investigation so far in the case. Kolkata Police had to file an investigation report in the court regarding the mob attack on the hospital.