"How autopsy was done" ? Supreme Court directs CBI to file a fresh status report ::::: Mamata Govt plays up nasty argument says "23 people died because doctors were on strike"

CJI: ..... because when the body is dispatched after the PMR, only the doctors doing the inquest would look at it, where is that filled out challan for the dead body, let the CBI give it to us 

The Supreme Court posed tough questions to the West Bengal government on Monday, asking how the autopsy of a trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, was conducted without a formal request. 

The Supreme Court on Monday, Sept 9, directed the CBI to file a fresh status report on the investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s state-govt run RG Kar Hospital. 

This came after the CBI submitted an initial report indicating it had leads in the probe.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said, "The status report has been filed by CBI, it appears that investigation is in progress. We direct the CBI to file a fresh status report... we will take it up on Tuesday... 

"CBI is doing it, we don't want to guide CBI on its investigation," the CJI said. 

CJI: "..... What CBI handed over is 27 mins pertaining to actual search operation, we wanted to know whether you are in the complete possession of the CCTV between the time the accused left the hall- who else had entered the hall?

The court also sought clarification on the timing of the unnatural death report in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital, following the submission of a status report by the CBI.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal informed the bench that the death certificate was issued at 1:47 p.m., while the police registered the entry of unnatural death at 2:55 p.m.

However, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta countered, stating that according to records, the report was filed at 11:30 p.m.

At the outset of the hearing, the CBI submitted its status report on the investigation to the bench. The judges reviewed the status report handed to them in a sealed envelope.

Sibal also informed the court that 23 people had died because doctors were on strike, and the state health department submitted a report on the same.

The case was initiated by the Supreme Court on its own, and a three-judge bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the matter.

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Advocate Geeta Luthra said : "As far as the matter of doctors is concerned, we have been saying that they should get protection. When they hold protests out of duty hours, no one should have any problem with it. 

They should get rooms, male and female separately. There should CCTVs and CISF deployment at RG Kar Hospital. No one should be allowed to enter all the places in the hospital. The junior resident doctors need protection, they work for 36 hours...".   

Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says: "As per the rules, the Governor of the state has the right to talk to the State Government, especially the Chief Minister, from time to time. 

"But the Chief Minister of Bengal should herself inform the Governor about the situation in Bengal after meeting him. This happens according to the rules but in Bengal, there is no such rule, no such process because the confrontation between the State and the Governor is at its peak. 

The State feels that the Governor is its enemy and the Governor feels that the state violates his authority, this is where all the problems lie."

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