Kolkata rape-murder case: CBI questions forensic experts, hospital doctors

On August 10, Sanjay Roy (31) was arrested as the prime suspect, who works as a civil volunteer for the Kolkata police.

The grueling, horrific, and enraging rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has spread a shockwave across the nation, with everyone questioning the safety of women in India. Protests are all over regarding the horrendous case, and the CBI has taken over the case.

CBI grills forensic experts.

On Thursday, The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioned three forensic doctors who conducted the post-mortem examination of the 31-year-old junior doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered at Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, said the federal agency officials. The preliminary inquest and post-mortem were conducted at the same hospital after the victim’s body, a doctor on duty, was found at the third-floor seminar hall of the chest department. The crime took place around 3 am to 5 am on August 9, as per the post-mortem report.

CBI questioned the hospital doctors.

The head of the chest department, Dr. Arunava Dutta Chowdhury, who took charge of the position on August 1, and Dr Sanjay Vashisth, the hospital’s former superintendent, who immediately was transferred after the crime were also questioned by the CBI during the day at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Kolkata’s eastern outskirts. Three forensic doctors, Rina Das, Apurba Biswas, and Molly Banerjee, conducted the post-mortem and were also summoned to the CGO Complex and questioned for four hours. Also, the preliminary inquest happened in the presence of a magistrate and three other doctors, Ratna Debnath, Diyasini Roy, and Antea Burman.

On August 13, the court-monitored CBI probe was ordered with immediate effect by the bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya. This was a day after CM Mamata Banerjee asked the Kolkata Police to complete the investigation by August 18, failing which she said the case would be transferred to the CBI.