NEW DELHI: Suspecting a cover-up attempt after discovery of the body of the raped and murdered doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital and Medical College , Supreme Court Monday asked Bengal govt how a "vital document" referring the body for postmortem examination could be missing from the files and how a doctor could carry out the procedure without that document. This aspect, which had escaped the notice of CBI , Bengal govt and the court, was raised by a counsel who said Kolkata Police could not have sent the body for autopsy without filling mandatory details about the body and clothes to the doctor, who would proceed only after receiving this document. A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra immediately acknowledged the cruciality of this document in the chain of events.
Just 27 mins of RG Kar CCTV data given to us, CBI tells SC Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, appearing for CBI in SC in RG Kar rape-murder, said Kolkata Police had not handed over to the central agency the report of the cops detailing the state of the victim's body and clothes as found in the crime scene. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal and advocate Astha Sharma, for West Bengal, conceded that files of Kolkata Police brought by their officers did not contain this document. "The chief judicial magistrate filled the form himself and gave it to the doctor," Sibal said.
The CJI asked, "How can a postmortem be carried out without this document?" Justice Pardiwala said, "The constable who.
