NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday transferred to the Calcutta High Court the suo motu proceedings it had initiated in the aftermath of the ghastly rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma directed that the matter be placed before a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court to oversee compliance with the directions earlier issued by the apex court.
“We deem it appropriate to refer the matter to a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court with a request to the Chief Justice to place the matter before an appropriate Bench. Registry to transmit all the matters to the Calcutta High Court, ” the Justice Sundresh-led Bench ordered.