The Supreme Court today resumed hearing in a case related to the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the matter.

Here are the top remarks and observations made by the Supreme Court:

“Let the health professionals return to work and once they return to duties the court will prevail upon authorities to not take adverse action”
“We have referred to the working conditions in general. We have gone to public hospitals. I have slept on the floor of a government hospital when one of my family members was sick. We know that doctors work over 36 hours.”
“The duty is almost 48 hours, then you are neither in a physical or mental state to resist if somebody is teasing you. I am not even going into serious crimes.”
“How would the public health infrastructure function if doctors did not return to work.”
“Doctors must resume work, we assure them there will be no victimisation.”
“I have not come across a case like this in my last 30 years, Bengal not following criminal procedure code.”

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Flooding in the eastern districts of Bangladesh – which is facing political turmoil after violent protests forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as Prime Minister and flee to India – were not caused by the opening of a dam on the Gumti River in Tripura, the government clarified Thursday.

The External Affairs Ministry acknowledged “the catchment areas of Gumti River that flows through India and Bangladesh witnessed heaviest rains of this year over the last few days”, but said the floods in Bangladesh were mainly due to waters from downstream catchments areas.

“The Dumbur dam is located quite far from the border – over 120 km upstream of Bangladesh. It is a low height (about 30m) dam that generates power that feeds into a grid and from which Bangladesh also draws 40MW power from Tripura,” the ministry said.

“Heavy rainfall has been continuing since August 21 in the whole of Tripura and adjoining districts of Bangladesh. Data showing rising trend has been supplied to Bangladesh till 1500 on August 21. At 1800, due to flooding, there was power outage leading to problems of communication… we tried to maintain communication through other means…”

Heavy rains in the region have also led to floods on the Indian side of the border – in Tripura.

More than 34,000 people have been displaced so far due to the floods in the northeastern state.

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Officials said on Wednesday that at least nine people, including three members of a family, were killed and two others were injured in separate incidents of landslides and drowning following incessant rain. Officials also said most of the state’s prominent rivers were flowing above critical levels while the main river – Gumti – had crossed the ‘extreme danger level’.

The weather department on Tuesday said the heavy rains were the result of a low-pressure area persisting over central parts of Bangladesh and the neighbouring region.

Over in Bangladesh, multiple deaths have been reported due to the floods, which have affected eight districts – Sunamganj, Maulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Chittagong, Noakhali, Comilla, and Khagrachari – according to local media reports.