The Supreme Court of India has taken suo motu notice of the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case. A trainee doctor at Kolkata`s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was allegedly raped and murdered. According to the cause list for August 20, a bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will hear the matter titled `In Re: Alleged rape and murder incident of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata and related issue`, reported PTI. 

An ANI report stated that on August 16, two lawyers practising in the top court and a doctor from Telangana had penned a letter to CJI Chandrachud urging him to take suo moto cognisance of the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case.

Advocates Ujjawal Gaur and Rohit Pandey wrote to CJI Chandrachud, requesting that he take suo moto cognisance of the incident, as the highest court of the land must intervene with the urgency and gravity that this case requires.