LIVE: Kolkata woman rape-murder case reaches Supreme Court, CJI’s bench will start hearing shortly, know every update

New Delhi: The whole country is boiling after the rape and murder of a female doctor in Kolkata. People are taking to the streets demanding death penalty against the murderers of that victim. Seeing the seriousness of the matter, the Supreme Court has also agreed to hear the case immediately. The Kolkata case will be heard in the court today. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, taking cognizance of the incident, has put the case on top of the list for hearing today at 10:30 am. Apart from this, the intervention of the Supreme Court is being considered important, especially because the Calcutta High Court has already handed over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

CJI’s bench will hear the matter
The Supreme Court may expand the scope of judicial investigation in view of the ongoing protests across the country, especially the protests of doctors and their concerns. The doctors’ strike has completed one week and is now entering the second week, causing a lot of trouble to the patients. The protesting doctors want the CBI to catch the culprits and the court to impose maximum punishment on them. They also want assurances from the government that such incidents will not happen again in future. According to the agenda of August 20 uploaded on the Supreme Court website, the bench will consist of Chief Justice Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra.

What did the Kolkata High Court say?
The alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor in a seminar hall of a state government hospital has triggered protests across the country. On August 9, the doctor’s body was found with severe injuries in the seminar hall of the hospital’s chest department. The next day, the Kolkata police arrested a civic volunteer in the case. On August 13, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the investigation from the Kolkata Police to the CBI, which began its investigation from August 14. The High Court had ordered the probe to be handed over to the CBI while hearing several petitions, including one filed by the victim’s parents. The High Court on August 16 said that the mob violence at the hospital was a complete failure of the state government. The court ordered the police and the hospital administration to file an affidavit about the situation there. The High Court said it was difficult to believe that the police intelligence agency was not aware of the gathering of 7,000 people, while the state counsel told the court that such a large number of people had gathered at the hospital in the early hours of Thursday.