SC Orders National Task Force to Respond on Gender-Based Violence in Hospitals
In a suo motu case, the top court had constituted the NTF on August 20 last year to firm up a protocol on safety and security of medical professionals following the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the National Task Force, constituted to protect medical professionals, to file its reply on the reports filed by states and other stakeholders on preventing gender-based violence and formulating safety protocols in hospitals.
In a suo motu case, the top court ahd constituted the NTF on August 20 last year to firm up a protocol on safety and security of medical professionals following the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata
On Tuesday, a two-judge bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh granted eight weeks to the NTF to file its response.
The top court had earlier directed hospitals, including AIIMS in New Delhi, to regularise the unauthorised absence of doctors who were part of protests against the rape and murder of a doctor at the Kolkata hospital.
On January 20, a Kolkata trial court awarded convict Sanjay Roy "life term imprisonment till death" in the case.
The body of the post-graduate trainee doctor was found in the hospital's seminar room on August 9, last year following which the Kolkata police arrested civic volunteer Roy the next day in connection with the crime.
