The Supreme Court is scheduled to take up the hearing of a case related to the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital today, September 9.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the case. It comes after the initial hearing on August 22 when the Supreme Court took suo moto cognisance of the incident.
The bench is also likely to consider the recent application filed by the Union government accusing the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of not cooperating with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) which has been deployed for security purposes at RG Kar Hospital.
Here are the latest updates:
Mamata Urges Sircar to ‘Reconsider’ Resignation
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged TMC MP Jawhar Sircar, who on Sunday announced his resignation as the party’s Rajya Sabha member in the wake of the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case, to reconsider his decision.
In a letter to Banerjee on Sunday, the parliamentarian mentioned about his plan to travel to Delhi to submit his resignation to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. After Sircar’s decision, Banerjee dialled him and urged him to reconsider his move, claimed reports.
Sircar also wrote that he had thought Mamata Banerjee would interfere in the RG Kar Hospital case in the “old Mamata style.”
“I thought you would interfere in the ongoing movement in the old Mamata style, but I did not see it,” he said adding that ongoing agitation of doctors was against the “unchecked overbearing attitude of the favoured few and the corrupt”.
Victim’s Mother Accuses Kolkata Police Of ‘Cover-Up’ Attempts
Joining a large-scale protest demanding justice for their young daughter, the parents of the victim on Sunday accused the Kolkata Police of ‘covering up’ the crime that took place on August 9 inside RG Kar Hospital.