SC slams Bengal's no-night shift order, Manoj Verma appointed new CP

The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticised a West Bengal government's notification saying state-run hospitals would avoid allotting night shifts to women doctors, stressing that it is the State's duty to provide them security. Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud asked the Bengal government's counsel, Kapil Sibal, why it wanted to limit women doctors?.Directing the Bengal government to amend the notification, which was issued in the wake of the rape-murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Meanwhile,the West Bengal government has transferred Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal as well as the state's Director of Medical Education and Director of Health Services.Goyal has been replaced by Manoj Kumar Verma, a 1998-batch IPS officer, who held the post of Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) to which he was appointed in January this year.Dipak Sarkar has been appointed DCP North.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was disturbed by the findings given in a status report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the rape and murder of trainee doctor at R G Kar government hospital in Kolkata but refused to divulge the details, saying any disclosure may jeopardise the ongoing investigation.Seeking a status report from the CBI on its probe into financial irregularities allegedly committed by jailed former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, the top court, referring to the rape and murder case, said the agency is not "sleeping over" the investigation and it needs to be given time to "unearth the truth."