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SC Refuses Blanket Protection For Protesting Doctors, Mulls Shifting RG Kar Case To High Court | India News

SC Refuses Blanket Protection For Protesting Doctors, Mulls Shifting RG Kar Case To High Court | India News

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Last Updated:November 19, 2025, 23:26 IST The bench also observed that the matter could not be heard “piecemeal,” indicating that it was inclined to transfer the entire case to Delhi or Calcutta High Court. Supreme Court of India (Credits: PTI Photo) The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it cannot pass “blanket orders” protecting doctors involved in protests in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year. A bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma remarked that such protection would amount to interference with police authority, noting that the police “has a right to call” individuals for questioning, news agency PTI reported. The bench also observed that the matter could not be heard “piecemeal,” indicating that it was inclined to transfer the entire case — including issues linked to ongoing protests — to the Calcutta High Court, which is already hearing several related petitions. “We are grappling with so many things and there is no end to this. It is …

Union Minister Annapurna Devi rebuts Mamata Banerjee, calls CM’s letter ‘factually incorrect’ – India TV

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Image Source : ANI Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, August 30, demanding exemplary punishments for heinous crimes like rape and murder following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi hit back against the TMC supremo, asserting that existing laws already have stringent punishments to tackle violence and crimes against women. In a letter to the West Bengal CM (the second within a week), the Women and Child Development Minister highlighted the major loop-holes in the data presented by the Chief Minister in her letter. Starting with, she highlighted onto the details regarding the status of Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) and special POCSO Courts in the Chief Minister’s letter are factually incorrect and appear to be an attempt to cover up the delays in operationalizing the FTSCs by the …