Today, On 23rd August, The night before a Kolkata doctor tragically raped and murdered, CBI sources revealed that while it seems unlikely the four doctors directly involved in the crime, there is a need to investigate their potential role in tampering with evidence. The CBI’s findings are now focused on uncovering any attempts to obstruct justice, ensuring that all aspects of the case are thoroughly examined.
Kolkata: Four colleagues of the 31-year-old doctor who raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will undergo lie-detector tests due to inconsistencies in their statements, according to CBI sources. The individuals include two first-year postgraduate trainees, a house surgeon, and an intern.
While the CBI does not suspect these four doctors of direct involvement in the crime, the agency aims to determine if they played any role in tampering with evidence or part of a conspiracy. Investigators have also reconstructed the events of the night before the doctor assaulted and killed.
According to the timeline established by Kolkata Police, one of the doctors discovered the victim’s body in the seminar hall around 9:30 a.m. the following day and reported it to the authorities. The city police previously questioned all four doctors before the CBI took over the investigation.
The CBI identified fingerprints from two of these doctors in the third-floor seminar room where the body was found. CCTV footage shows the house surgeon moving from the first to the third floor that night, with the surgeon claiming he was on the third floor at 2:45 a.m. The intern, who was also on the third floor, reportedly spoke with the victim that night.
Sources indicate that the victim dinner with two first-year postgraduate trainees around midnight before they went to the seminar room to watch Neeraj Chopra‘s javelin event at the Olympics. Around 2 a.m., the two trainees went to the sleep room where on-duty doctors rest, while the victim remained in the seminar room. The intern stated that he was in the interns’ room. All three rooms the seminar hall, the sleep room, and the interns’ room are located near each other on the third floor.
At around 9:30 a.m., one of the postgraduate trainee doctors who had dinner with the victim the previous night went to check on her before the ward rounds began. He noticed her body was “motionless from a distance,” according to the timeline provided by Kolkata Police. He then alerted his colleagues and senior doctors, who informed the hospital authorities.
The CBI received approval to conduct lie-detector tests on the four doctors involved, as well as Dr. Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who faced criticism for his handling of the incident.
A special court granted permission for the tests yesterday. Lie-detector tests can only be conducted with court approval and the consent of the individuals involved.