The court said, “An enquiry under a UDR (Unnatural Death) is intended to ascertain the circumstances surrounding an unnatural death. The doctor and the hospital approached the court challenging the police notices, contending that doctors cannot be subjected to relentless investigative intrusion without material justifying criminal culpability. They are only inquiring into the cause of death to close the case with regard to the unnatural death report,” he submitted. The court thus held that the current inquiry “would only legitimise an exercise of power that the statute itself does not sanction”. Story continues below this adThe court also clarified that its order would not bind, influence or come in the way of the Karnataka Medical Council’s inquiry.