Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder Case: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take note of the issues flagged in a letter filed by father of the rape and murder victim at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The top court observed, that many of the concerns raised by the victim’s father have allready been adressed in the fresh and confidential status report placed before the top court by the CBI, however, the CJI DY Chandrachud led bench asked the CBI to look into all the concerns raised by the victim’s father in his letter to the court.

The top court said that the father of the deceased has made some suggestions on the leads that should be taken for investigation and the court is not making it public, but will say that these are valuable inputs and CBI should look into this. 

CJI Chandrachud led bench further asked the counsel to send a message across to the parents, “please be assured…CBI has flagged most of the issued adresses in the letter in its status report.”

“We are not making a detailed comment so that it should not put someone who is in doubt to guards themselves…please be assured CBI has flagged all of this in the status report.” the bench said.

The bench also said that the status report of CBI shows that disclosing anything on the investigation will jeopardise the line of investigation. CJI said that let me assure you the CBI investigation is to unearth the absolute truth.

“Apart from principal, SHO is also arrested. So let us wait. We have seen the status report.. CBI has replied to issues such as whether challan in statutory form was submitted for postmortem what were given exactly and it is exploring if there is a likelihood of scene of crime being tampered, complicity of any other person…evidence being destroyed.. etc.. apart from this..it would be unwise for us to disclose anything further,” the bench said.   

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising appearing for the junior doctors placed in a sealed envelop names of persons who were on the scene of the crime and had no business to be there. 

Advocate Vrinda Grover told the top court that parents had accompanied the CBI to carry out investigation and amidst lot of information swirling they do not know what to believe.

SG Tushar Mehta appearing for CBI said that he agrees that as parents they must be informed and this is the minimum an investigating agency should do for the girl who has been raped and killed. 

The Supreme Court in the previous hearing had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a fresh report in the Kolkata rape-murder case after the central probe agency raised suspicion over the forensic report in the case. Today, the CBI filed a confidential status report on the progress of investigation into the case to the Supreme Court.

In addition to the rape and murder, the CBI is also investigating former principal of RG Kar Sandip Ghosh and others in relation to the crime and alleged financial irregularities in the hospital under their watch.