KOLKATA: Calcutta excessive courtroom stated Friday “it could be onerous to imagine that state police didn’t know” one thing just like the post-midnight vandalism at RG Kar Medical Faculty may occur, terming what transpired after Wednesday’s ‘Reclaim the Evening’ avenue protests over a 31-year-old PG scholar’s rape-murder “an absolute failure of state equipment“. “Might this vandalism have been prevented is the query.Who did it comes later,” HC stated.
When the state’s counsel contested a submission by the sufferer’s mother and father that part of the seminar corridor the place the August 9 rape-murder came about had been affected by some ongoing work, HC stated, “Let the authorities submit a report with images (to show that the crime scene is undamaged) earlier than the subsequent listening to.”
One thing wanted to encourage our confidence, says Calcutta excessive courtroom
The report ought to embody the true state of affairs and all issues referring to the hospital, HC stated earlier than looking for to know the explanation for the “urgency” in beginning the mission to construct washrooms for girls docs within the neighborhood of the crime scene within the hospital’s seminar corridor.
“What’s the cause for breaking all services (through the vandalism)? It may possibly by no means be understood… Police are additionally injured. Subsequently, had the legislation and order failed? One thing is required to encourage our confidence,” Chief Justice Sivagnanam stated when state govt counsel Amitesh Banerjee spoke of a 7,000-strong mob breaking barricades and operating riot contained in the hospital.
The division bench, additionally comprising Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, questioned why the administration did not clamp prohibitory orders inside a kilometre’s radius of the hospital in north Kolkata regardless of realizing that the scenario was tense.
“You cross orders underneath Sec 144 CrPC for any cause, however when a lot commotion is occurring, you must have cordoned off your entire space,” the bench stated.
“In our view, the police ought to place on file your entire sequence of occasions resulting in the incident. What’s extra vital is that the docs working within the hospital, who’re presently protesting, need to be given sufficient safety to discharge their duties. We had earlier reminded docs of their obligation to deal with sufferers. Nonetheless, this incident would undoubtedly impression their mindset.”
Earlier this week, the bench ordered police to switch the probe into the rape-murder to CBI.
When the state’s counsel contested a submission by the sufferer’s mother and father that part of the seminar corridor the place the August 9 rape-murder came about had been affected by some ongoing work, HC stated, “Let the authorities submit a report with images (to show that the crime scene is undamaged) earlier than the subsequent listening to.”
One thing wanted to encourage our confidence, says Calcutta excessive courtroom
The report ought to embody the true state of affairs and all issues referring to the hospital, HC stated earlier than looking for to know the explanation for the “urgency” in beginning the mission to construct washrooms for girls docs within the neighborhood of the crime scene within the hospital’s seminar corridor.
“What’s the cause for breaking all services (through the vandalism)? It may possibly by no means be understood… Police are additionally injured. Subsequently, had the legislation and order failed? One thing is required to encourage our confidence,” Chief Justice Sivagnanam stated when state govt counsel Amitesh Banerjee spoke of a 7,000-strong mob breaking barricades and operating riot contained in the hospital.
The division bench, additionally comprising Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, questioned why the administration did not clamp prohibitory orders inside a kilometre’s radius of the hospital in north Kolkata regardless of realizing that the scenario was tense.
“You cross orders underneath Sec 144 CrPC for any cause, however when a lot commotion is occurring, you must have cordoned off your entire space,” the bench stated.
“In our view, the police ought to place on file your entire sequence of occasions resulting in the incident. What’s extra vital is that the docs working within the hospital, who’re presently protesting, need to be given sufficient safety to discharge their duties. We had earlier reminded docs of their obligation to deal with sufferers. Nonetheless, this incident would undoubtedly impression their mindset.”
Earlier this week, the bench ordered police to switch the probe into the rape-murder to CBI.
