RG Kar Homicide Case: As investigation proceed within the RG Kar rape and homicide case, senior TMC chief Derek O’Brien on Friday raised questions on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) pertaining to the standing of the chargesheet within the case.
“When is CBI submitting a charge-sheet within the RG Kar hospital rape and homicide case and placing the accused on trial? When?” the TMC chief stated in a submit on X.
The case pertains to the rape and homicide of a trainee physician who was discovered useless within the seminar corridor of RG Kar Medical Faculty in Kolkata on August 9. After the case got here into the limelight, widespread protests erupted throughout the nation, demanding justice for the sufferer.
When is CBI submitting a chargesheet within the RG Kar Hospital rape and homicide case and placing the accused on trial ? When ?
আর জি কর কাণ্ডে সিবিআই কবে চার্জশিট দাখিল করে অভিযুক্তদের বিচার শুরু করাবে?
— Derek O’Brien | ডেরেক ও’ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) September 6, 2024
For the previous few days, the TMC has been demanding that the CBI file the charge-sheet on the earliest. The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had transferred the probe to the CBI from Kolkata Police in August. Police had arrested the principle accused, a civic volunteer, a day after the incident on August 9.
In the meantime on Friday, the Supreme Courtroom refused to entertain a petition filed by the previous principal of RG Kar Faculty principal Sandip Ghosh. Ghosh had approached the highest court docket claiming that the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had not thought of his model earlier than ordering a CBI investigation into the corruption case in opposition to him.
In his plea, Ghosh argued that the Excessive Courtroom’s choice was one-sided and that he was not given a good listening to. Nevertheless, the Supreme Courtroom declined to listen to the matter. This leaves the Excessive Courtroom’s order for a CBI probe intact.
On August 23, Justice Rajarshi Bhardwaj from the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom directed the CBI to guide the probe into alleged monetary irregularities on the Hospital that passed off throughout Ghosh’s tenure.
The court docket arrived to this choice after reviewing a petition from Akhtar Ali, a whistleblower and former deputy medical superintendent at R.G. Kar. Justice Bhardwaj additionally specified that the CBI’s investigation can be court-monitored.
On the identical day, Ghosh made an appealed in opposition to the ruling to a division bench of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, which included Justices Harish Tandon and Hiranmay Bhattacharya. He requested a speedy listening to however was instructed to first get hold of a duplicate of the single-judge bench’s order.
As an alternative of going again to the division bench with the order copy, Ghosh determined to go straight to the Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday.
On August 25, the officers of the central probe company carried out raids in a number of areas in Kolkata, together with Ghosh’s house, as a part of the investigation.
By September 2, CBI’s financial offence wing had taken Ghosh and three others into custody. A particular court docket in Kolkata remanded the 4, together with Ghosh, to CBI custody for eight days on September 3.
The allegations in opposition to the previous RG Kar principal embody giving contracts to non-public events with out correct approval, utilizing non-public entities for infrastructure work as an alternative of the usual state public works division, and improperly disposing of biomedical waste and organs from unidentified our bodies.
