‘Revealing Name of RG Kar Victim’: Cal HC Asks Ex-Police Commissioner Goyal To File Affidavit On Petition Seeking FIR

The Calcutta High Court Today (Oct 7) directed former Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal to file an affidavit in opposition to allegations made in a petition seeking filing of FIR against him for allegedly revealing the name of the rape-murder victim doctor of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. A division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam also directed him to state through the affidavit whether this court can independently proceed with the matter and consider the prayer sought for in the petition.