The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Mishra will hear the case on Tuesday (August 20). The case was registered on Sunday at 01:03 pm.
Meanwhile, at least 70 Padma awardees wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asking him to personally intervene to see justice is done in the brutal Kolkata rape case wherein a resident doctor was murdered in a Kolkata hospital last week.
“Over 70 of us, Padma Awardees who have been honored by the government over the last few decades got together and have written to PM Modi to take personal interest in this matter and to see that the culprits are brought to book and get the strictest possible punishment. Also, we have requested a new separate law for the protection of doctors, healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions be brought in so that no one dares to even talk or do verbal abuse against healthcare professionals and healthcare workers,” said Dr Harsh Mahajan.
Doctors at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, held a candlelight march on Saturday, demanding strict action against those responsible. They called for justice, condemning the brutal crime and insisting on harsh punishment for the culprits.
In Odisha, the Odisha Nursing Employees Association at Sahid Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital also organized a candle march, where nurses and doctors protested the crime.
Theatre artists from West Bengal joined the protests with a midnight march on Saturday, expressing outrage over the incident. Protests were also held in Maharashtra and at AIIMS Mangalagiri, where junior doctors and medical students voiced their anger over the incident.
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