RG Kar case: Supreme Court says, 'What CBI revealed in its report is disturbing'

The Supreme Court in the case In Re: Alleged Rape and Murder of Trainee Doctor in RG Kar Medical College Hospital, Kolkata and related issues was hearing the Suo Motu case over the RG Kar Hospital rape murder, wherein the court observed that revelations in status report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI were 'disturbing.

The court in the case refused to divulge the details furnished by the Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI, saying that disclosures might hamper the investigating.

The court after perusing the status report submitted by Satya Veer Singh, DIG, CBI stated that the CBI is not 'sleeping over' the investigation and that they need to be given time to unearth the truth.'

The court in the case noted that ninety days time is being available for filing the chargesheet.

The court stated that there was still the time left and that setting a deadline may not be conducive for proper investigation.

The bench of Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud stated that, 'making a disclosure today of what the CBI is investigating will jeopardise the process, the line which is taken by the CBI is to unearth the truth the SHO himself has been arrested...the Central Bureau Investigation, CBI has responded specifically to the issues this court have raised, which includes whether the challan in the statutory form was submitted along with the postmortem...CBI is also exploring the possibility of whether the scene of the crime was tampered with, evidence was destroyed, whether there was the complicity of other persons in failing to report the crime etc.'