Kolkata horror: Nod to CBI for accused’s polygraph test
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 19
The CBI on Monday got permission from the Calcutta High Court to conduct a polygraph test on Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.
Roy is in CBI custody. He was a civic volunteer working with the Kolkata police and was arrested last week after the doctor’s body was found in the seminar hall of the hospital. Meanwhile, the CBI grilled Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the medical college, for the fourth day today. His phone records are also being vetted by the agency.
In a symbolic protest, resident doctors offered elective outpatient services outside the Health Ministry headquarters here. They displayed their names and specialisations on sheets of paper, emphasising the need for safety and protection in hospitals. Holding placards, the doctors demanded swift action in the case. They sought the death penalty for the accused in the case.
“One of our demands is the enactment of the Central Protection Act. We have been protesting for eight days. Another demand is the death penalty for the accused,” said Dr Soumya S, who was at the protest site.
The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) said, “We want to make it clear that we are totally against emergency shutdown. We don’t want our patients to suffer. The emergency service is running and even the OPD is functional. OPDs are managed by our consultants and professors; so no patient is suffering. The resident doctors are not attending the OPDs. There is no lack of patient care.”
Several women doctors said they were scared while working. Dr Prashasti said, “The brutality perpetrated on the doctor in Kolkata has left a mark on our hearts and minds. We need safety. Doctors face violence on a daily basis in the country. We urge the government to ensure that no such act is repeated.”
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging a notice sent to him by the police in connection with a social media post he made over the alleged rape and murder of the doctor.
The Kolkata police served the notice on the veteran politician on Sunday, asking him to appear before it.
Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj granted permission to Roy’s lawyer to file his petition challenging the notice. The court said it would hear the petition on Tuesday.
In a social media post, the veteran TMC MP had demanded that the CBI must carry out “custodial interrogation” of the Kolkata Police Commissioner and previous principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in connection with its probe into the alleged rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee doctor.
The police have accused him of spreading misinformation as his charge that a sniffer dog was brought to the crime scene three days after the incident was apparently untrue.
