The Supreme Court was hearing the rape and murder case that happened in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. During this, something happened that two big lawyers got into a fight. Actually, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal was arguing on behalf of the West Bengal government in this case, while Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was arguing on behalf of the CBI and the Center. When Tushar Mehta was raising questions on the negligence of Kolkata Police and the timing of the entry in the diary of the case, Kapil Sibal started laughing.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta got angry at Sibal on this. Expressing his displeasure at Kapil, he said, “A girl has lost her life in the most inhuman and gruesome way. Someone has died. At least don’t laugh.” On this, Sibal said that everyone agrees that this incident is “tragic and barbaric”. At the time when this incident happened, the court room was packed. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud was hearing the case along with two other fellow judges Justice JB Padriwala and Justice Manoj Mishra.
The court expressed its displeasure over the delay in the investigation and registration of the case by the Kolkata Police and ordered them to present the full details at the next hearing. Earlier, the Solicitor General on behalf of the CBI alleged in the court that the local police had tried to hide the rape and murder case that took place at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The Solicitor General said that by the time the case came into the hands of the CBI, things had changed at the crime spot and the evidence had been tampered with.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud that senior doctors of the hospital as well as colleagues of the victim had asked for videography and this meant that they too felt something was being hidden.
“We started the investigation on the fifth day. Before that, whatever the local police had collected was given to us. The investigation itself is a challenge as the scene of the crime was changed. The FIR was registered at 11:45 pm after the cremation (of the victim),” he said.
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Mehta told the bench, “First of all, the deputy superintendent of the hospital told the victim’s parents that she was not well. When they reached the hospital, they were told that she had committed suicide…. The deceased’s colleagues insisted on videography. This shows that they suspected a cover-up.” The Solicitor General said that when a call was made to the Tala police station on the morning of August 9, the doctors told the police that the victim was unconscious, though she had already died.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the West Bengal government, opposed Mehta’s arguments, saying everything was videographed and nothing was changed at the crime scene. Sibal said the Kolkata Police followed the procedure with all sincerity and the CBI’s status report is only an attempt to complicate the case. He said the CBI should tell the court what progress it has made in the case in the last one week.
Let us tell you that the body of a trainee lady doctor was found in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Police has arrested an accused in this case. Calcutta High Court had ordered to hand over the investigation of the case from Kolkata Police to CBI on August 13. CBI has started its investigation in this case from August 14. The main accused in the case, Sanjay Roy, has been arrested. The sword of arrest is also hanging over the college’s former principal Sandip Ghosh. CBI has interrogated him in several rounds. Now the court has given permission to conduct polygraph test of a total of five doctors including Ghosh. (With Bhasha inputs)
