The apex court is slated to hear on Wednesday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
As per the details present on the website of the Supreme Court, a bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna comprising Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan will resume hearing the suo moto case on January 22.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government on Tuesday approached the Calcutta High Court, challenging the verdict of a Kolkata special court awarding life imprisonment to Sanjay Roy, seeking death penalty.
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A division bench of Justices Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi of the Calcutta High Court admitted the state government.
CM Banerjee, in a statement, has said: “I am convinced that it is indeed a rarest of rare cases which demands capital punishment. We want to insist upon the death penalty.”
Earlier, taking suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder case of the junior doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the Supreme Court had termed the incident “horrific,” which raises the “systemic issue of safety of doctors across the country”.
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