A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya were hearing multiple pleas, including one by the parents of the victim seeking transfer of investigation to an independent agency. In expressing concerns over the progress of the investigation under the state police. After a preliminary investigation, the Kolkata Police had arrested a …
A rift has reportedly emerged between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and Trinamool Congress’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee over the transfer of the former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College, Dr Sandip Ghosh, following protests over the trainee doctor’s brutal rape and murder in the hospital. Abhishek Banerjee has notably …
Former Deputy Superintendent at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Akhtar Ali has moved the Calcutta High Court against former principal Dr Sandip Ghosh, alleging serious illegalities committed by the former principal. In his plea Ali alleges that Ghosh started serious illegalities as such mismanagement of dead bodies, reselling biowaste in the open market, misutilization …
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, while hearing the Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder case, observed on Tuesday that if women are not able to go to work and the conditions are not safe, “we are denying them equality”. The Supreme Court of India. (PTI photo) CJI Chandrachud said the matter was not just about …
Kolkata doctor rape case: The mother-in-law of the arrested civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy, accused of raping and murdering a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar hospital, has said that her son-in-law was ‘not good’ and that he caused a miscarriage of her 3-month-pregnant daughter. The elderly woman also cast aspersions on the fact that only …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital from four different angles. Here are the angles: 1. Ex-Principal questioned for the fourth time Ex-Principal Sandeep Ghosh arrived at the CBI office in Kolkata this morning, where he …