In the latest update in the Kolkata rape-murder case, the Calcutta High Court handed over trainee doctor’s rape and murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), amid a nationwide stir on the brutal incident which took place in city’s RG Kar Hospital.
Notably, the case was being investigated by the state police. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee vowed to handover the case to the central investigative agency if the state police had failed to resolve it by Sunday.
However, the High Court, amid widespread protest and emergency medical services across the country asked CBI to intervene. Soon after the court’s order, the agency completed all formalities following the High Court order asking the state police to hand over the case documents to the central probe agency, officials said.
The said, ‘A team of CBI officials from Delhi along with forensic scientists and medical experts will visit Kolkata on Wednesday’. Earlier in the day, the High Court ordered the state police to hand over the case diary to the CBI by 10 AM on Wednesday, amid allegations of covering-up as well as protests and strikes by doctors over the incident.
The body of the postgraduate trainee, who was allegedly raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of the state-run RG Kar hospital, was found on Friday morning. A civic volunteer was arrested in this connection on Saturday. The victim’s parents had moved the High Court seeking a court-monitored investigation in the case. Several other PILs were also filed seeking a CBI probe.
The safety of women’s doctor is a big question under the Mamata’s Banerjee government.
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