Kolkata: A CFSL report on the RG Kar rape-murder case indicated that “evidence of possible struggle” between the victim and her assailant was not found in the place of occurrence, the seminar hall, sources claimed on Monday.
The Calcutta high court is likely to hear the plea by the victim’s kin seeking a fresh probe. The court will hear the arguments on January 2.
The victim, a post-graduate trainee doctor, was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Her family alleged that she was raped and murdered, leading to widespread protests by doctors and medical communities across the nation.
Earlier, Calcutta high court on Monday directed the Joint Platform of Doctors, who are agitating near Dorina crossing, to reduce the number of participants to 100 from the 200-250 allowed by a single bench on Dec 20.
A division bench of justices Harish Tandon and Hiranmay Bhattacharyya told them to submit their decision regarding the state’s proposal to suspend the dharna on Dec 25 and instead hold it on Dec 27.
Counsel for the agitating doctors, Shamim Ahmed, submitted to the bench that there was no scope for reconsidering the dharna schedule.
The state on Monday appealed against the direction of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, which allowed the protesters to hold a demonstration from Dec 17 to Dec 26.
Senior counsel for the state, Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, drew the attention of the bench to a new phenomenon where petitioners were moving the high court days ahead of the programme and obtaining an order, leaving the state with no option but to comply.
The senior counsel pointed out the protesters chose Durga Puja to agitate and this time it was Christmas. The senior state counsel cited several SC judgments in which the judiciary was advised to review the decision-making process and not the administrative decision.
“A court should leave it to the discretion of the administration to decide on the length and breadth of the dharna mancha,” Bandyopadhyay said.
IMA-Bengal protest against CBI ‘delay’
The IMA-Bengal on Monday protested in front the CBI office, questioning the process of investigation on the RG Kar rape-murder incident.
Service Doctors Forum and Nurses Unity also held a mass convention on what they called CBI’S failure to submit charge sheet against RG Kar former principal Sandip Ghosh and Tala ex-oc Abhijit Mandal.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
