Kolkata hospital horror: Supreme Court slams Bengal govt over delay in filing FIR

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the West Bengal government for the delay in filing the first information report (FIR) in the murder and rape of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud noted that the FIR was filed after a delay of three hours and 15 minutes after cremation of the young doctor.

SC appeals to protesting doctors to resume duties

The Supreme Court on Thursday appealed to protesting doctors to return to their duties, hinting that they would ask the authorities to not take any adverse actions against them.

The Apex Court assured, while hearing the suo motu case on the RG Kar Hospital murder-rape of a trainee doctor, that it will pass an order urging the authorities to not take any adverse actions against the doctors who have been protesting over their demand for better safety following the August 9 murder of a doctor in the Kolkata hospital.

A bench headed by the Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud heard the counsel representing the resident doctors of AIIMS Nagpur who said that the protesting doctors were being marked absent.

The CJI then made an appeal to the protesting doctors to return back to work, saying that 'their abstention will affect people who are in need of public health services'.

'Please be rest assured that once doctors resume duties, we will prevail upon authorities to not take adverse actions,' the court said.

'How will the public health administrative structure run if they don't resume work?" Justice Chandrachud observed.