RG Kar doctor rape-murder: SC tears into Kolkata police for 'lapses' in probe; asks protesting docs to resume work
RG Kar doctor rape-murder: SC tears into Kolkata police for 'lapses' in probe; asks protesting docs to resume work
NEW DELHI: A tough talking Supreme Court on Thursday tore into the Kolkata police over the delay in registering the unnatural death of the woman doctor, who was raped and killed at the RG Kar Hospital, calling it "extremely disturbing", and questioned the sequence of events and the timing of its procedural formalities.
Making an impassioned appeal to the protesting doctors across the country, the apex court also asked then to get back to work, saying "justice and medicine" cannot be stopped and moreover, it was issuing all the necessary directions to ensure their safety. It further directed no coercive action against them.
The strong reprimand of the Kolkata police by the top court in which a three-judge bench highlighted its "lapses" in its probe came even as Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the CBI, said there was an attempt to cover up the case by the local police as the crime scene was "altered" by the time the federal agency took over the probe.
