West Bengal: In a significant development, the Calcutta High Court has directed the principal of RG Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh, to resign by 3 pm today, amidst the ongoing protests and outrage over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor. The court has warned that if Ghosh fails to resign, it will be forced to take action.

Additionally, the court has directed the West Bengal government to produce before it the case diary of the investigation at 1 pm. The parents of the postgraduate trainee had moved the HC, seeking a court-monitored investigation in the case.

A number of other PILs were also filed that sought a CBI probe into it.

Hearing the petitions, a division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam observed that "something is missing" in the probe, and asked whether the then principal of the medical college, Sandip Ghosh's statement was recorded, to which the state lawyer answered in the negative.

Questioning how the principal of RG Kar hospital, who submitted his resignation, was reinstated as principal of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital within hours, the bench, also comprising Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, asked his counsel to produce both the resignation letter and the subsequent appointment letter when the matter will be taken up for hearing at 1 pm.

The body of the woman postgraduate trainee, who was allegedly raped and murdered inside a seminar hall of the RG Kar hospital, was found on Friday morning. A civic volunteer was arrested in this connection on Saturday.

(with agency inputs)