New Delhi:
The Central Bureau of Investigation has dominated out gangrape within the dying of a Kolkata physician final month because the out there proof signifies solely Sanjay Roy – arrested by the police – was concerned within the horrific rape and homicide on the metropolis’s RG Kar Hospital, sources advised EDNBOX Friday morning.
Sources stated the inquiry is in its “closing levels” and that the company – given the case by the Kolkata Excessive Courtroom, which overruled Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in doing so – will quickly file costs.
The CBI is below strain from a Chief Minister who, in flip, is taking hearth from political rivals and civil society activists over the grotesque crime. Final week she demanded an replace. “I requested for 5 days’ (for the police to probe earlier than she referred to as within the federal company) however the case was despatched to CBI. They do not need justice. They need delay. It has been 16 days, the place is justice?” she requested in Kolkata.
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Ms Banerjee’s colleague, state Minister Bratya Basu, has additionally demanded a report.
“Twenty-three days have handed (because the case was transferred)… there is no such thing as a progress report from CBI. We demand an in depth report of the investigation. When Kolkata Police was investigating common updates got via press conferences,” he declared.
EDNBOX has been advised the company has despatched a medical report – with DNA from the accused – to specialists on the government-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi.
The company will look to wrap up this inquiry after receiving medical doctors’ closing opinion on the fabric.
Sources additionally stated the CBI – which has recorded over 100 statements and carried out 10 polygraph checks, together with two of ex-hospital chief Dr Sandip Ghosh – has no cause to imagine others have been concerned in raping and murdering the physician, whose physique was present in a hospital room early August 9.
The company has made three arrests of its personal, the largest of which is Dr Ghosh, who give up days after the killing on “ethical grounds” however was appointed to move one other state-run hospital hours later.
He was arrested on Monday.
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Nevertheless, Dr Ghosh, who was grilled by the CBI over two weeks, was arrested over alleged monetary irregularities throughout his time as chief of the RG Kar Hospital. That case was based mostly on a petition by an ex-employee of the hospital – Deputy Superintendent Akhtar Ali.
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He had accused Dr Ghosh of promoting unclaimed corpses, trafficking in biomedical waste, and passing tenders in opposition to the fee paid by medication and medical gear suppliers.
Three others have been arrested too, together with a safety guard.
Since his arrest Dr Ghosh has been suspended by the Bengal authorities and the state medical doctors’ physique. He had already been suspended by the Indian Medical Affiliation.
This morning the CBI raided Dr Ghosh’s home in Kolkata, once more.
The CBI is anticipated to file a standing report with the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on September 17.
The RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case has made main headlines throughout the nation and the world, and drawn livid protests from involved medical professionals, gender and civil society activists, and, final however not least, from the opposition BJP and Congress in Bengal.
There have been a number of claims and allegations made, many with out substance, alleging conspiracies that led to the physician’s dying and claims of her being gangraped. There have additionally been accusations by her household that police tried to bribe them to cowl up the killing, which the cops have firmly denied.
Her mother and father additionally stated this week they’d been compelled to cremate the physique regardless of eager to protect it. “About 300 cops surrounded us… they created such a scenario…” her father stated. The state has come down closely in opposition to such claims, accusing the opposition of spreading rumours.
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The killing has additionally triggered protests and dharnas throughout the nation, a lot of which turned violent, together with an incident in Kolkata on August 15, Independence Day, during which a mob stormed the campus and allegedly vandalised the seminar room the place the physique was discovered.
The Supreme Courtroom, in the meantime, has taken suo moto cognisance of the horrid crime and a listening to is on earlier than a bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud.
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