The junior doctors at government medical colleges in Kolkata, who are continuing with the strike until justice is delivered to the RG Kar victim, are seeking a probe against city’s Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal.
The doctors anger stems from the “failure” of the police in probing the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College. They also demanded suspension of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh.
The junior doctors vowed to continue with their cease-work, which started after a junior doctor was found raped and murdered at RG Kar on August 9.
The doctors said they always doubted Kolkata Police’s probe and their suspicion was proven right when the CBI told the Supreme Court that the crime scene had been “altered”. They also demanded the resignation of the commissioner of Kolkata Police, Vineet Goyal.
They said they were surprised that the state government had yet to take any action against Ghosh despite so many allegations against him. Ghosh resigned as RG Kar principal days after the postgraduate trainee was raped and killed.
The Supreme Court had questioned Kolkata Police’s “delay” in registering an “unnatural death” case and an FIR, as well as its tardiness in cordoning off the crime scene.
“One aspect is extremely disturbing… the cordoning of the crime scene was done at 11.30pm…” the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud told Sibal.
While junior doctors have been demanding the resignation of the police commissioner since a mob vandalised the RG Kar premises on the eve of Independence Day, the demand that the top cop be brought under investigation is new.
Cut marks on prime accused’s body
Multiple “cut marks” found on both forearms of main accused Sanjay Roy suggest the possibility that the junior doctor whom he allegedly raped and murdered put up a tough fight in the last few minutes of her life, a CBI officer said.
Sources in the CBI said that when they took custody of Roy on August 14, they found cuts all over Roy’s left and right forearms “up to his elbows”, and an external injury to his right hip. Agency sleuths said these were marks of “resistance”.
“Roy said these cut marks on his forearms were self-inflicted. But he could not explain why he would inflict such injuries on himself,” a CBI officer said. “We suspect these are resistance marks caused when the victim struggled.”
The officer added that another cut was found on Roy’s “right iliac crest” — the curved ridge that forms the upper border of the right hip. This injury may indicate that the victim had tried to resist him from forcing himself on her, CBI sources said.
Police sources said that scrapings from the fingernails of the murdered doctor had been sent to the central forensic laboratory to match the DNA with Roy’s, the lone accused arrested in the case so far.
A senior Kolkata Police officer who was attached to the probe before its transfer to the CBI, reportedly, confirmed that there were “resistance marks” on Roy when he was arrested.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had asked for the “medical examination report” or the “injury report” of the accused during the hearing of the RG Kar rape and murder case in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Solicitor-general Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, had said he did not know whether the report existed. But the Bengal government’s counsel, Kapil Sibal, said the report was part of the case diary that had been handed over to the CBI.
A police officer unattached to the probe said that injuries on the accused have to be considered in conjunction with other pieces of evidence.
“For example, if the skin tissues found in the scrapings from the victim’s fingernails match the DNA of the accused, it will establish the struggle between the accused and the victim. It will be direct medical evidence,” the officer said.
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