Kolkata Doctor Case Hearing Updates: “Somebody has lost their life. Don’t at least laugh,”Tushar Mehta to Kapil Sibal, watch video

During the Supreme Court hearing in the Kolkata doctor's rape and murder case, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, said to West Bengal government attorney Kapil Sibal on Thursday, "Someone has lost their life, do not at least laugh."


On August 9, the body of a 31-year-old medical intern was discovered within the state-run hospital's chest department's seminar hall. Doctors and citizens all throughout the nation staged rallies in the streets to call for justice for the woman doctor after the tragedy.


A bench chaired by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud expressed dismay with the police's protocol for following the law. The fact that the deceased's postmortem was performed on August 9 between 6:10 and 7:10 p.m., before the case was formally recorded as an unnatural death, greatly alarmed the justices. This series of events made it unclear whether the investigation's basic legal procedures were followed correctly.

The officer from Kolkata Police who first documented the rape-murder case, which has shocked the country, has been ordered by the court to appear at the next hearing. The officer must disclose the precise moment the report was submitted.

The most startling aspect, according to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta of the CBI, is that the FIR was filed at 11:45 p.m., after the postgraduate medic had been cremated.