The Supreme Court bench, which had earlier taken Suo motu cognisance of the brutal and horrific incident of the rape and murder of the 31-year-old trainee medicos, had slammed the delay in the registration of the FIR and inconsistencies in the timings regarding the entries for Unnatural Death of the victim.The CBI in its status report, filed before the Supreme Court, said that the crime scene, at the R G Kar Medical and College Hospital, was altered; as initially the state police told the parents that it was a suicide, but later on, said, it was a murder.The SC also expressed concern about the manner in which the West Bengal police have handled the case so far. “The entire procedure that has been followed by the State Police is something that I have not come across in my 30 years of career,” he remarked and fixed the matter for further hearing to September 05.The bench also expressed its displeasure and anguish at the fact that the scene of the crime was sealed only late at night and altered, and how the accused persons destroyed evidence despite the body being discovered in the morning itself.The Supreme Court also termed the Kolkata Police’s inaction as “extremely disturbing” and delay in registering the unnatural, brutal death of woman doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.The apex court questioned the sequence and timing of legal formalities conducted by the police, as the SC said it was very surprising that the postmortem of the deceased was conducted on August 9 between 6.10 pm to 7.10 pm before the registration of the case as unnatural death.
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