Archive · 20 Nov 2025
SC Refuses Blanket Protection to Protesting Doctors in RG Kar Case
The Supreme Court said it can't give special protection to all doctors protesting after a fellow doctor was killed at RG Kar Hospital.
It wants the Calcutta High Court to handle the case instead.
The court said it's hard to monitor protests in Kolkata from Delhi.
The doctor's body was found in August 2021, and a volunteer was arrested for the crime.
Supreme Court refused to pass 'blanket orders' protecting doctors involved in protests following the death of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
The apex court observed that it cannot interfere with the authority of the police and that it was inclined to transfer the matter to the Calcutta High Court
The court directed the Association of junior and senior doctors to submit a table of matters pending before the Calcutta High Court
The matter will now be heard after the winter vacations
The body of the postgraduate trainee doctor was found in the hospital's seminar room on August 9, 2021, and a civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was arrested the next day
- Who
- Supreme Court, doctors, Sanjay Roy
- What
- Refused to pass 'blanket orders' protecting protesting doctors
- When
- August 9, 2021 (doctor's body found), August 10, 2021 (arrest of Sanjay Roy), and on Wednesday (Supreme Court's decision)
- Where
- RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, Supreme Court of India, Delhi
- Why
- To prevent interference with police authority and to transfer the matter to the Calcutta High Court
Doctors' Association
Police
Protection for Protesting Doctors
Doctors' Association
Seeks blanket orders from SC to protect protesting doctors from police harassment
Police
Argues that any order from SC would interfere with their authority
- Victim
- Postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
- Suspect
- Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer
- Date of Crime
- August 9, 2021
- Date of Arrest
- August 10, 2021
- Next Hearing
- After winter vacations
Sources
RG Kar case: Can't pass 'blanket orders' protecting docs involved in protests, says SC
Supreme Court refuses ‘blanket immunity’ for doctors protesting RG Kar rape-murder case
SC: It Cannot Issue Blanket Protection to Kolkata Protest Doctors
