New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 29) directed hospital authorities, including AIIMS, to regularise the absence of protesting doctors, who were protesting in the wake of rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, if they had joined their duties post the apex court order.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar directed this while hearing a suo motu case in which the apex court had taken cognisance of the rape and murder of the on-duty woman doctor at the hospital on August 9 last year.

The top court while hearing the matter in........

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