SC directs National Task Force to submit report on Preventing Violence in Hospitals

Published On 2025-08-06 07:16 GMT   |   Update On 2025-08-06 07:16 GMT

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Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the national task force, constituted to protect medical professionals, to submit its response within 8 weeks on the reports filed by states and other stakeholders on preventing gender-based violence and developing safety protocols in hospitals. 

The top court, in a suo-motu case, constituted the national task force (NTF) on August 20 last year to formulate a protocol on the safety and security of medical professionals in the wake of the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

During Tuesday's hearing, a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh granted eight weeks to the NTF to file its response, news agency PTI reported.

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The top court had previously 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 RG Kar Hospital, Kolkata.

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It then took note of the submissions of a doctors' body which said while some hospitals had regularised the absence of the doctors following its August 22, 2024, order, a few others, including AIIMS Delhi, decided to treat the period as leave of absence.

On August 22, last year, the bench made an impassioned appeal to the protesting doctors across the country, asking them to resume work.

Observing "justice and medicine" couldn't be stopped, it directed no coercive action would be taken against doctors once they resumed work.

The heinous crime triggered nationwide outrage and prolonged protests in West Bengal.

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.

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