RG Kar case: Let not the power of the state of West Bengal be unleashed on peaceful protesters, says CJI

• SC directs CISF to provide security at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to enable doctors to resume work
  
• CISF and CRPF in adequate numbers to be deployed to guard the hostel and other buildings at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital: CJI
  

• We expect the government of West Bengal will show restraint against peaceful protesters: CJI

• The government of West Bengal could not be unaware when protests across the country is happening, one segment will try to disrupt it, female doctors will be called by name and threatened with similar consequences: CJI

• CJI says doctors across the country must resume their duties

• CBI to submit progress report on the investigation on Aug 22. Same day, the West Bengal government will submit a report on its investigation into the vandalism at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the Independence Day eve

• The NTF shall make actions plans on two heads - (1) preventing violence including gender based violence against medical professionals; (2) providing an enforceable national protocol for dignified and safe working conditions for interns, residents, senior residents, doctors, etc.

• (1) preventing violence including gender based violence against medical professionals - (a) ensuring safety in the hospital; (b) infrastructural development; (C) employment of social welfare workers trained in grief and crisis counselling; (d) workshops on handling grief and crisis : CJI on NTF, suggestions to be submitted within three weeks

• (2) prevention of sexual violence against medical professionals : (a) Prevention Sexual Harassment Against Women At Workplace Act applies to hospitals and nursing homes, including private healthcare providers

• 10-member NTF named by CJI. (1) Surgeon Vice Admiral RK Sarian; (2) Dr Reddy , Mangaing Director Asian Institute of National Gastrology; (3) Dr M Srivas, Director AIIMS, Delhi; (4) Dr Prathima Moorthy, NIMHANS, Bangalore (5) Dr Puri, Director, AIIMs, Jodhpur; (6) Dr Ravat, Managing member of Gangaram Hospital; (7) Prof Anita Saxena, VC of Pandit BD Sharma College; (8) Dr Pallavi and (9) Dr Padma Srivastav. The following shall be the ex-officio members of the NTF : (a) the cabinet secretary to the GOI; (b) the home secretary of GOI; (c) secretary of ministry of family welfare CJI: (d) chairperson of the National Medical commission and (e) President of the National Board of Examiners. The NTF shall make recommendations pertaining to safety, working conditions and well being of the medical professionals and other cognate matters highlighted in the above order.

• SC raps Kolkata Police, asks how mob of thousands entered RG Kar Medical College

• Nation cannot wait for another rape for things to change on ground, says SC

• SC says power of West Bengal govt should not be unleashed on protestors, its time of national catharsis

• Let West Bengal not be in denial mode, complete failure of law and order in state, says Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in SC

• Mob of 7,000 people cannot enter R G Kar Hospital without knowledge of Kolkata Police: SG Tushar Mehta in SC

• Doctors lack place of resting, no basic hygiene is maintained for them; lack of security in medical healthcare units; doctors are left to handle unruly patients; only one common toilet is there for medical professionals in the hospital; professionals have to travel distances for washrooms accessibility: CJI

• On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old PG doctor at RG Kar Hospital was raped and murdered....the brutality of the sexual assault shocked the conscience, and her name and pictures have been circulated violating privacy. Parents were permitted to see the dead body after several hours, HC transferred the investigations to CBI on the eve of Independence Day.... large mob vandalized the hospital: CJI

• We have videos, political parties get involved and this in what happens: CJI

• We are unable to comprehend how the state was not able to handle the issue of vandalism at the hospital: CJI

• Hospitals are open throughout the day and night, doctors work round the clock: CJI

• CJI refers to various instances of doctors facing violence by the families of the patients on duty in Bengal, Bihar and Hyderabad.

• People there took photos; (2) immediately a case of unnatural death was started; (3) we had set up a board, asked a Judicial Magistrate to be present: Sibal

• Parents are not in the hospital, it is the duty of the hospital to file the FIR: CJI

• Let us not trivialize, we are dealing with a young doctor's rape by a sexual pervert but also had an animal like instinct. I don't want to make this a political issue, 3 hours of the parents waiting: SC

• It is the obligation of the authorities to register a complaint when a murder happens: CJI

• It appears crime was detected in early hours, medical college principal tried to pass it off as suicide, says SC

• Who is the 1st informant who filed FIR? what is the time of the FIR?: Justice Pardiwala

• When was the body handed over to the body for cremation?: CJI

• The body was handed at 8.30 pm and the FIR is lodged at 11.45 pm three hours after the body is cremated: CJI

• CBI to file a status report on Thursday: CJI

• Setting up under the authority of this court a national task force, we want them to give recommendations of the modalities to be followed across the country for the safety measures for senior and junior doctors to be followed: CJI

• This is now not a matter of any particular institution: CJI

• Appointments are taken 2 years in advance in AIIMs etc, we are here to ensure doctors safety, we therefore earnestly request the doctors to trusts us....this is not a matter of a particular case, but something that affects the institution of healthcare pan-India: CJI

• What was the principal doing? FIR was not filed. Body was handed late to parents; what is the police doing? A serious offence has taken place, the crime scene has taken in the hospital...what are they doing? allowing vandalists to enter the hospital? After principal resigned from here, he is assigned as principal in some other college?: CJI

• We will have to place the facts before the lordship, this is not correct, says Kapil Sibal appearing on behalf of the state government

• If women are not able to go to work and conditions are not safe, we are denying them equality: CJI

• The name has been published all over the media, the photographs have been published. Extremely concerning: CJI

• We know they are all intern, resident doctors and most importantly woman doctors....most of the young doctors are putting in 36 hours ....we must evolve a national protocol to ensure safe conditions of work are provided: CJI

• No duty rooms, no separate rest rooms available, nursing and paramedic staff, there must be a standard national protocol, says CJI Chandrachud

• Absence of safe conditions to work for young doctors across the country, says CJI Chandrachud

• Raises systemic issues on the safety of doctors, says CJI Chandrachud

• Supreme Court commences hearing on plea related to RG Kar doctor rape and murder case in Calcutta

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