Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted its status report to the Supreme Court on August 22 on the progress of the investigation into the rape and murder of a woman doctor in state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata. As per sources, the agency has found several missing links.
The apex court’s division bench headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud is hearing the matter. This is the second hearing at the CJI’s division bench in the matter and all eyes now are on the proceedings at the division bench.
Sources said the first missing link is the substantial gap between the time of the discovery of the body at the seminar hall of the hospital building on the morning of August 9 and that of intimation to the local police station about the tragedy.
Sources said that the investigating CBI officials are trying to figure out why the hospital authorities, especially, the former and controversial RG Principal Sandip Ghosh took so much time to inform the police after the discovery of the body. The probe agency has been interrogating Dr Ghosh to join the dots since last week. The questioning has been going on for 12 to 14 hours almost every day.
The second missing link is the exact person who first spotted the body of the victim at the seminar hall on the morning of August 9. Sources said that even after interrogating several medical and non-medical staff of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the investigating officials are yet to identify the individual who first spotted the body. Contradictory statements have been given by those being interrogated.
Sources said that the investigating official believed that once the individual, who spotted the body first is zeroed in, answers for many unanswered queries in the matter will be found. The body of a woman doctor was found in mysterious circumstances on the hospital premises on August 9. One person has been arrested so far. Protests erupted in the city and later across the country over the case. (IANS inputs)
Hospital's new principal transferred after protestsThe West Bengal Health Department transferred three top officials of state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, including its new Principal and Vice Principal, following protests by junior doctors and medical students who demanded their removal. Apart from the newly-appointed Principal Suhrita Pal, the newly-appointed Medical Superintendent and Vice Principal Bulbul Mukhopadhyay, and the head of the institute's Chest Medicine Department Dr Arunava Duta Chowdhury were also shifted out. Earlier in the day, the representatives of the medical fraternity took out a protest rally to the Swastha Bhavan, the state Health Department headquarters. There a delegation of protesting doctors met the Department officials and handed over a memorandum enlisting their demands. |
