The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday sought particulars from the State of West Bengal concerning the qualification, deployment and remuneration of civic volunteers concerned within the state’s establishments, together with hospitals.
The Bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra handed the instructions whereas listening to the suo motu case tel within the rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician at R.G. Kar Medical School & Hospital in Kolkata.
The Apex Court docket directed the Counsel showing for the West Bengal authorities to offer data concerning the authorized supply of authority for hiring civic volunteers, the {qualifications}, the establishments by which they had been assigned duties, and the funds made on a each day & month-to-month foundation, together with the price range allotted for a similar.
The affidavit, to be submitted by the subsequent date of listening to, ought to point out the steps taken by the State of West Bengal to make sure that such civic volunteers weren’t posted in hospitals, colleges, police stations, and delicate locations, it added.
The Bench particularly sought particulars concerning the choice course of being adopted for the deployment of civic volunteers.
Senior Advocate Karuna Nundy apprised the Bench that there have been greater than 1500 such volunteers, as of now.
The Court docket remarked that this was a pleasant strategy to confer political patronage on chosen people.
Showing for CBI, Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta submitted a progress report on the Nationwide Activity Power.
On a question concerning the progress between September 5 and October 15, 2024, the SG apprised the Court docket that the final assembly came about on September 9, whereby, round 7800 hospitals submitted particulars.
The Bench additionally perused the fifth standing report filed by CBI.
It famous that on the premise of the investigation performed by CBI, a cost sheet was submitted within the court docket of ACJM Sealdah on October 7, 2024, for offences underneath Sections 64, 66 of the BNS in opposition to accused Sanjay Roy.
The ACJM Sealdah would conduct listening to for consideration of cost on November 4, 2024, the Bench additional famous.
It ordered the CBI to file a standing report inside three weeks on the side of alleged monetary irregularities within the matter.
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