RG Kar victim's parents asked to approach HC

THE Supreme Court on Monday disposed of the plea filed by the parents of the victim in the RG Kar Medical College rape-cum- murder case and granted them the liberty to approach the Calcutta High Court.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi

THE Supreme Court on Monday said the trial of the Manipur ethnic violence cases, probed by the CBI, would be conducted in Assam capital Guwahati, where they were transferred to earlier. "We clarify that the trial of transferred cases will be held before the courts at Guwahati," a three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, said and posted the matter for further hearing to July 21.

The apex court also extended till July 31 the tenure of a committee headed by Justice Gita Mittal, the former chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. The committee, also comprising former Bombay HC judge Shalini P Joshi and former Delhi HC judge Asha Menon, was set up on August 7, 2023 by the top court to oversee relief and rehabilitation of the Manipur ethnic violence victims.