Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked North 24-Parganas police to submit the case diary and investigation report in a case related to the alleged rape of a 11-year-old girl at Matia near Basirhat by April 4 when the matter will be heard again.

The schoolgirl, who went missing last Thursday, was found unconscious from the vicinity of a park in Matia on Friday.

Preliminary probe revealed rape. Police took the girl to Basirhat superspecialty hospital from where she

was shifted to RG Kar Hospital in Calcutta.

Based on a complaint filed by members of the girl’s family, the police on Saturday arrested one of her aunts and accused Shahar Ali Sadar, 20, from Domjur in Howrah.

The incident created a political storm with both the CPM and the BJP attacking the Mamata Banerjee government for an alleged increase in incidents of rapes in the state.

Hearing the plea by a group of women lawyers on Thursday, the division bench headed by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava also asked the state authorities to take necessary steps to ensure that the 11-year-old girl got the best possible treatment at RG Kar Hospital in Calcutta.

The bench also directed the hospital authorities to meet her.

The court order followed a plea by advocates Sumitra Neogy, Pallavi Chatterjee and a few others who requested the bench to initiate suo motu proceedings into the incident “as cases of rape and torture had been increasing in the state”.

Referring to another incident at Englishbazar in Malda, advocate Chatterjee said a minor girl was gang-raped at gunpoint.

The lawyers claimed that in the last 25 days, 11 women were raped in the state.

The lawyers pleaded for a team of doctors to be formed to monitor the treatment of Matia girl, who they claimed was fighting for her survival at the hospital.

Appearing for the state government, advocate general S.N. Mukherjee said the girl was getting the best treatment at the hospital.

After hearing the lawyers, the bench took up the Matia issue and delivered the order.