College students of RG Kar Medical School watch Supreme Court docket listening to on their protest web site. PTI
Kolkata:
The Kolkata Police yesterday submitted in Supreme Court docket a timeline of the occasions and its actions within the horrifying rape and homicide of a 31-year-old physician that has sparked nationwide protests. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal confused that town police have adopted process to a tee.
Nevertheless, a number of factors made by town cops are at odds with the CBI’s findings and what the sufferer’s dad and mom have mentioned of their petition.
Here’s a take a look at what Kolkata Police have mentioned and the questions that stay
The Timeline
August 9, 9.30 am: A primary yr postgraduate trainee sees the sufferer’s physique from a distance. He informs his colleagues and senior docs, who alert hospital authorities.
10.10 am: Tala police station receives details about the incident from a police outpost at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital. The cops are informed that the physique of a lady is mendacity in an unconscious state on a wood platform in a seminar room on the third flooring of the emergency constructing. They’re informed the physique is in half-naked situation. The data is entered as a Normal Diary Entry and cops go away for the spot.
10.30 am: Cops attain the crime scene and take inventory. Senior officers are knowledgeable and crime scene is secured.
10.52 am: The Assistant Superintendent of the hospital informs the sufferer’s household and asks them to come back rapidly.
11.00 am: Murder staff reaches the spot.
12.25 pm: Photographer and videographer of the scientific wing of detective division attain the spot. The primary photograph of the physique is taken at 12:29 pm. Fingerprint and footprint specialists attain the spot too, so do a number of senior officers of Kolkata Police. The forensic staff is named in.
12.44 pm: On-duty physician examines the sufferer and declares her useless.
1.00 pm: Mother and father of the sufferer attain the hospital, meet authorities and are taken to the seminar room after 10 minutes.
1.47 pm: The medical certificates and loss of life certificates of the sufferer are handed over to the police. Police officer notes accidents on the physique, together with on non-public elements, and an unnatural loss of life case is recorded.
3.00 pm: The sufferer’s household and colleagues demand inquest and autopsy within the presence of a Judicial Justice of the Peace and underneath videography, first verbally after which in a written kind.
4.10 pm: Judicial Justice of the Peace arrives, inquest carried out between 4:20 pm and 4:40 pm. The household and colleagues of the sufferer are current and the process is videographed.
6.10 pm – 7.10 pm: Submit-mortem by a board of forensic docs in presence of Judicial Justice of the Peace. Relations and colleagues of the sufferer current and the process is videographed.
8.00 pm: Canine squad reaches the spot. Between 8:37 pm – 08:52 pm: 3D mapping of the crime scene is carried out.
8.30 pm – 10.45 pm: 40 displays seized by forensic staff, this was videographed and native witnesses have been current. Physique is handed over the household after autopsy.
11:45 pm: FIR registered primarily based on the grievance by the sufferer’s father underneath fees of rape and homicide
Police have mentioned examination of suspects and questioning of the sufferer’s colleagues began on August 9. The subsequent morning, at 10 am, the accused Sanjay Roy was arrested “after his extended examination and confession of guilt”. He’s the one arrest thus far within the case, which is now being investigated by the CBI after a Calcutta Excessive Court docket order.
The Massive Questions
Affirmation of Dying: In response to the police timeline, the physique was first noticed at 9.30 am and a health care provider on responsibility confirms loss of life at 12.44 pm — greater than three hours later. When the native police station is knowledgeable, they’re informed {that a} girl has been discovered unconscious. Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta questioned this in Supreme Court docket yesterday, saying that a health care provider shouldn’t be wanted to know if it’s a useless physique. “Medical doctors are informing police that there’s an unconscious physique.”
The Suicide Angle: The sufferer’s dad and mom informed the Calcutta Excessive Court docket that they acquired a name from the hospital at 10.53 am and have been knowledgeable that their daughter was unwell. One other name, at 11.15 am, knowledgeable that she had died by suicide. The Kolkata Police timeline mentions just one name and doesn’t point out suicide in any respect.
Have been Mother and father Made To Wait?: Of their petition filed earlier than the excessive courtroom, the physician’s dad and mom mentioned they have been made to attend for 3 hours earlier than being allowed to see the physique. The sufferer’s mom has informed the media that she begged the hospital authorities to let her see her daughter’s physique, however to no avail. However, in accordance with the police timeline, the dad and mom have been taken to the seminar corridor shortly after they reached the hospital. The West Bengal authorities’s counsel additionally informed the excessive courtroom that the dad and mom weren’t stored ready.
Delay In Submitting FIR:Â Each the Calcutta Excessive Court docket and the Supreme Court docket have questioned why an unnatural loss of life case was filed and the hospital authorities didn’t provoke a grievance on the premise of which an FIR might be filed. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud yesterday mentioned, “Process is a separate concern, however the level stays. What’s the cause the FIR is lodged nearly 14 hours after the invention of the (physique). Crucial factor is that the principal of the faculty ought to have come straightaway to the faculty and directed the submitting of the FIR.”
The Crime Scene:Â In response to the police timeline, the crime scene was secured at 10.30 am – an hour after the physique was first noticed. Even after the mob vandalism on the hospital within the early hours of August 15, Kolkata Police asserted that the crime scene was safe. However, the CBI has refuted this. Arguing within the matter in Supreme Court docket yesterday, Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta mentioned, “We entered the probe on the fifth day… The investigation itself was a problem as a result of the scene of offence was altered. The FIR was registered solely after the cremation at 11:45 pm.”
