Parents of the murdered RG Kar hospital doctor today moved Calcutta High Court seeking a fresh probe into rape and murder of their daughter. They expressed lack of confidence in the ongoing probe into the incident that led to huge protests across the State and prayed for a direction for a fresh investigation into the rape and murder of their daughter
Justice Tirthankar Ghosh asked their lawyer to add the CBI, which is probing the case, as a party in the petition and mention the matter again before the court on Monday.
“We have moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a further in-depth investigation into the case. The plea was mentioned before the bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh. As the victim’s parents have made the plea, the court allowed it. It is likely to be heard on Monday,” Gargi Goswami, the advocate representing the victim’s parents, said on Thursday.
“We have not demanded a fresh investigation. All we have demanded is a more in-depth investigation. Statements of some witnesses, who we think are crucial to the case, haven’t been recorded. More CTTV footage needs to be scanned,” Goswami added.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered by Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer of Kolkata Police, on August 9 on the hospital premises, triggering a nationwide uproar. On August 13, the Calcutta High Court handed over the investigation to the CBI.
On October 7, the central probe agency filed its first charge sheet in the case, charging Roy, the prime accused in the case. The trial is still going on, the CBI told the Supreme Court during a recent hearing.
This comes just days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to submit the charge sheet against two accused arrested persons – Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of the medical college, and Abhijit Mondal, the former officer-in-charge of the Tala police station, within the 90-day period.
The Sealdah court on December 13 granted bail to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital ex-principal Sandip Ghosh and Tala police station’s officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondal in the case.
They were granted bail as the CBI failed to file charge sheets against them within the 90-day statutory period, according to their lawyers.
On September 14, the agency had arrested Mondal and Ghosh, who were accused of vitiating evidence and vital data related to the case and creating false records to hush up the case. The agency even conducted polygraph tests on Roy and Ghosh. Mondal, however, declined to give his consent to undergo a polygraph test and a narco-analysis test.
The on-duty postgraduate trainee doctor’s body was found in the seminar room of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
While Ghosh was accused of tampering with evidence in the case, the police officer was accused of delaying the filing of a FIR after the body was found.
CBI has filed a charge sheet against the prime accused, Sanjay Roy.
In its charge sheet, the CBI said Roy, who was working as a civic volunteer with the local police, allegedly committed the crime when the victim had gone to sleep in the hospital’s seminar room during a break.
