LIVE | Kolkata horror: SC forms task force for doctors’ safety; medics to continue stir

CJI says, "We know they are all interns, resident doctors, and most importantly, woman doctors....Most of the young doctors are putting in 36 hours...We must evolve a national protocol to ensure that safe conditions of work are provided."

The Kolkata Police have registered a corruption case against Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College.

The state police are probing financial irregularities at the state-run hospital, which has been under scrutiny since a complaint was lodged in June.

The state government has formed a SIT to probe the allegations that have plagued the medical college and hospital since 2021, when Dr Ghosh took charge.

The SIT is reportedly headed by IG Pranab Kumar and includes top officials such as DIG Syed Waquar Raza, DIG Soma Mitra Das of the CID, and Deputy Commissioner Indira Mukherjee of the Kolkata Police.

The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case has reportedly been handed over to two of the CBI’s top women officers, who have handled similar cases earlier.

Sampat Meena, a 1994 batch IPS officer from Jharkhand, has been reportedly given the overall charge of the case and will be working in a supervisory capacity, heading a team of 25 officers. She has in the past handled the Hathras rape-murder case and the Unnao rape case.

Officer Seema Pahuja, who was also part of the Hathras investigation team, will reportedly work in a supervisory capacity. She will carry out the ground-level investigation. This Additional Superintendent of Police has received the Gold Medal twice for excellent investigation between 2007 and 2018.

CBI officers questioned the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, for the fourth consecutive day on Monday in connection with its probe into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at the health facility.

Ghosh, who reached the CBI’s city office at CGO Complex in the morning, was grilled till late in the evening, an official said. Ghosh, who resigned from the post on August 11, has been grilled for several hours in the past three days by officers of the central probe agency.

Some of his version does not match with that of the others who are being interrogated in the case, the official said.

The call records and his chat details are also being investigated.

Among other queries, he was asked to specify his role after getting the news of the death of the doctor, who he had contacted thereafter and why he made the parents wait for nearly three hours before getting to see her body, the official said.

The former principal was also questioned on who had ordered renovation of rooms adjacent to the seminar hall, after the postgraduate trainee’s body was found there on August 9, he said.

The CBI is likely to conduct a polygraph test on Sanjoy Roy, the civic volunteer arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a young trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. On Sunday, the agency conducted a psychoanalysis test on the accused, where he was questioned by a team of experts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL). The CBI is yet to schedule a date for the polygraph test, an official told news agency PTI. A local court on Monday granted CBI permission to conduct the polygraph test. As per norms, the accused has to be brought before a magistrate, who will ask the person if he agrees to a polygraph test, the official added.