Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday had asked the CBI to submit the case diary and also to clarify key aspects of its probe into the rape and murder of RG Kar junior medic on August 9.
According to the order of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of Calcutta High Court, “The investigation and the status report to be submitted by the CBI, who have been confronted with few questions regarding the initiation of the case; the materials which were collected by the investigating agency during the course of investigation as well as relating to further investigation which they are presently continuing. The CBI will also produce the Case Diary also on the next date so fixed,” mentioned part of the order.
Justice Ghosh had also made it clear that he will only entertain case diaries, not a formal report.
Justice Tirthankar Ghosh also asked a few questions to the central agency that whether they think that the rape was done by one person or whether it was a gangrape? The Justice also questioned whether CBI considers adding Section 70 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), particularly if multiple suspects were involved.
Meanwhile, the protesting doctors and nurses chanting the slogan of ‘We want Justice’, held a protest rally outside the CBI headquarters in Kolkata but were stopped by police from entering the CGO complex.
Later, however, a delegation was allowed to submit a memorandum to the CBI officials inquiring about the present status of the investigation.
The victim’s mother said that she had faith in the judiciary and hoped to get justice.
“It is very clear that my daughter’s death was an institutional murder. She got to know about the irregularities in the hospital for which she was killed. Rape was not the motive but murder was,” said the victim’s mother.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Shankar Ghosh said that the people of West Bengal should not think that the investigation of the RG Kar incident got over. Trinamool Congress (TMC) vice president Jai Prakash Majumdar said that those who had demanded CBI are now questioning the central agency.
