Police arrested one person for his alleged involvement in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a senior officer said on Saturday.
The arrested man, an outsider, had free access to the different departments of the hospital, he said.
“We have arrested one person, who is an outsider. His activities are quite suspicious and he seems to be directly involved in the crime,” the police officer told the media.
Talking more about the arrested accused, police said that they recovered a torn part of a Bluetooth earphone which led to the culprit.
In fact, other PGTs and female doctors also identified the culprit from CCTV footage grabbed from other parts of the hospital premises, a source in the police department said.
Police officers also claimed that the arrested accused had given different statements during the grilling.
“Now, we are trying to find out who else was with him or he had someone else with him,” he said, adding that police might conduct necessary medical examinations on him.
Police officers also questioned two intern doctors the entire Friday night in connection with their ongoing probe into the death of the woman doctor, he said.
CM Mamata Banerjee’s stance
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asserted that her government will seek death penalty for the accused in the alleged sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor.
Banerjee also said she has asked officials to ensure that the case be tried in a fast track court.
The chief minister also said the protests and processions by junior doctors demanding exemplary punishment for the accused were justified.
“I endorse the demands being made by the junior doctors,” she told the media.
Banerjee said the West Bengal government has no objection to an investigation into the case by any agency, including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), if there is a demand for it.
Describing the incident as gruesome and despicable, she urged the junior doctors at various state-run hospitals to carry on giving healthcare services, while holding the protests.
Protests surrounding the murder
Junior doctors at various hospitals in West Bengal held protest sit-ins and took out processions on Saturday demanding exemplary punishment to those involved in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The body of the woman doctor was found inside the seminar hall of the hospital in north Kolkata on Friday.
Junior doctors, including interns, housestaff and postgraduate trainees held protest sit-ins and processions at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, National Medical College and Hospital and Medical College, Kolkata.
Similar protests were held at hospitals in some districts, including Bardhaman Medical College and Hospital and Bankura Sammilani Medical College.
They demanded exemplary punishment for those involved in the sexual assault of the woman doctor and security of doctors at the hospitals.
The junior doctors said that emergency services at these hospitals were operational.
The SFI and DYFI, which are CPI(M)’s students’ and youth wings respectively, have announced road blockades across West Bengal on Saturday and Sunday to protest the murder.
PGT doctor found dead
The semi-nude body of a woman postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor was found inside the seminar hall of the government-run hospital in Kolkata on Friday.
The deceased, a second-year student of the chest medicine department, was on duty on Thursday night. The body bore injury marks.
Her father had alleged that she was raped and murdered inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and efforts are on to hide the truth.
Preliminary autopsy report has indicated sexual abuse of the woman doctor before she was killed, police said.
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