The Supreme Court on Thursday, while addressing the doctors’ issue, said no coercive actions should be taken against the striking doctors. It also called on doctors, especially those that have gone to the hinter parts of the country, to go back to work.
A bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice J.B. Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra also sought the detailed meeting of the cooperation of top officials and top police officers of various states for the formulation of a plan for the interim safety of doctors.
When the bench conducted the suo motu plea again in a case of rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital after some time, the bench appealed to the leaders and stakeholders not to politicize the matter because it is a crime of rape.
The apex court has again scolded the state government for the delay in registering FIR and tends to be soft on former RG Kar Medical College Principal Sandip Ghosh.
It also questioned who was Ghosh protecting. Interestingly, even when, following a shift in the legal framework, it became possible in India for modern science to engage with itself without a mediatory persons’ science, it was Ghosh’s personality that was still able to bring back the people’s science.
Who was this Ghosh communicating with, whom was he shielding, and why didn’t the principal register a police complaint?” the bench remarked.
CBI has also sought directions to the local court to make clear permissions about the polygraph test of arrested accused Sanjay Roy by Friday.
The court has also ordered to seal further the status reports filed by the CBI and West Bengal government on the ground that it does not want the statements to go in the public domain, as the case is high-profile and sensitive in nature.
The top court has listed the matter for hearing on September 5.
In its order, much earlier today, the top court observed that the Kolkata Police sat over the “unnatural death case” and failed to add it to the records while investigating the case, and that was’very disturbing’.
