KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Sunday ordered that a second post-mortem be conducted on the schoolgirl who was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district.The 10-year-old girl was returning to her Joynagar home after attending her tuition classes on Saturday when the incident took place.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta High Court, hearing a petition filed by the girl’s parents, directed that the second post-mortem be conducted at AIIMS Hospital in Kalyani on Monday in the presence of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) of Baruipur court.Justice Ghosh also ordered that police should register a case under the POCSO Act.If AIIMS Kalyani lacks the necessary infrastructure to conduct the post-mortem, it should be carried out at Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, also located in Kalyani, the court said.However, the post-mortem must be done by doctors from Kalyani AIIMS, not those from the state-run hospital, it added.The body of the schoolgirl is currently kept at Kantapukur morgue, where the first post-mortem was performed.One person has been arrested in connection with the murder.
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