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The Calcutta High Court connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) ordered mounting up a three-member peculiar probe squad (SIT) of the CBI to probe the developments from the clip the R G Kar Medical College's trainee doc had meal connected the nighttime of August 2024 to her cremation.
The young medic was raped and murdered successful the infirmary connected the nighttime of August 9, 2024, which caused an uproar successful the State arsenic good arsenic among the doctors' assemblage crossed the country.
There person been allegations that grounds was destroyed and attempts were made to downplay the incidental successful its contiguous aftermath.
A precocious tribunal part Bench comprising Justices Shampa Sarkar and Tirthankar Ghosh connected Thursday (May 21) said the CBI's associated director, east, volition caput the team. The different 2 members of the squad would beryllium decided wrong 48 hours of the court's order.
The Bench said that, considering the societal ramifications of the gruesome incident, a three-member SIT would look into charges of grounds demolition and allegations made by the medic's parents that determination were attempts to hush up and downplay the incident.
The SIT was directed to probe the developments from the clip the trainee doc had meal astatine the infirmary till her cremation the adjacent evening. The tribunal directed the SIT to record a broad study by June 25, erstwhile the substance volition beryllium heard again.
The parents of the doc moved the precocious tribunal seeking further probe into the rape and execution of their daughter, claiming that much than 1 idiosyncratic was progressive successful the gruesome crime.
Civic unpaid Sanjay Roy was sentenced to beingness imprisonment for the rape and execution of the post-graduate trainee doc astatine the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The part Bench said that it is of the presumption that the investigation, which is continuing, should absorption connected the lapses which person been identified by the CBI successful the study dated March 28, 2025.
It noted that the CBI has indicated specified lapses connected the portion of the constabulary and the infirmary authorities during the investigation, anterior to the probe being handed implicit to the cardinal bureau by the precocious court.
"We are of the considered presumption that the absorption of the probe should beryllium directed towards each the surrounding circumstances of the fateful night, from the signifier erstwhile the unfortunate had meal with her doc friends till the clip of cremation," the part Bench said.
"Although we bash not remark connected the credibility of the investigating officer, we are of the presumption that considering the quality of the offence, the societal ramifications, insecurity of women astatine the workplace, a peculiar investigating squad comprising of 3 members, headed by the Joint Director, CBI, Eastern Zone, beryllium constituted" which volition probe the issues flagged, the Bench said.
The tribunal said that the SIT "shall not lone absorption connected the issues relating to demolition of grounds oregon shielding immoderate offender, but shall revisit the grievance of the petitioners to that extent." The part Bench said that if required, the petitioners and immoderate different idiosyncratic that the SIT whitethorn deem indispensable volition beryllium interrogated.
The tribunal asked the CBI to nutrient earlier it connected the adjacent day of proceeding the lawsuit diary on with each applicable materials and documents.
