Centre to states on protests against Kolkata murder: Send reports every 2 hours

As the country reels in the aftermath of the Kolkata rape and murder case.

The Union Home Ministry has issued an order to all the states, asking them to submit reports regarding the law and order situation every two hours.

The Union Home Ministry has directed the police forces of all states across the country to send reports every two hours through email, fax, or even WhatsApp.

“Henceforth, a continuous two-hourly law and order situation report in this regard may kindly be sent to the MHA control room (New Delhi) by Fax/ Email/ WhatsApp from 4 pm today (16/08/24),” reads the official notification issued by Centre, news agency PTI reported.

In the wake of nationwide protests and outrage over a trainee doctor’s rape and murder in a Kolkata hospital, the Home Ministry stated that the law and order situation in all the states should be monitored.

On August 9, the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor’s semi-naked body was found in the seminar hall of the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. A civic volunteer of the Kolkata Police, Sanjay Roy, was arrested in connection with a gruesome rape and murder the next day. The Calcutta High Court handed over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday.

The accused, Sanjoy Roy, will undergo a psychoanalysis test, as the CBI has called in a team of experts from Delhi’s Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) to Kolkata.

Protesting doctors are demanding justice and urgent reforms, including an overhaul of resident doctors’ working and living conditions and the implementation of a central law to protect healthcare professionals from workplace violence.