New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the West Bengal government’s request to stop live streaming of the court proceedings in the case of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
While presiding over a three-judge bench, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud told Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, who is representing the Bengal Government and made the request, “We will not stop this”.
Sibal told the bench, “I have great concern at what’s happening. Your Lordships took suo motu cognisance of the matter to find out what is happening on the ground. Now what happens is if you livestream matters like this…which have emotive implications, huge emotive implications. We are not for the accused, we don’t stand for the accused, we are only called upon to tell you what the state has done”.
Meanwhile, the SC, which perused the status report filed by CBI, said it did not want to make public what has been said by the Central agency.
“We will keep it at that so as not to jeopardise the further possibility of the investigation. As all of you know, apart from the principal, there has been an arrest of the SHO himself. He’s in the custody of CBI, and there are significant pieces of (evidence)… would be revealed in the course of the investigation,” the court added.
