Dr Sandip Ghosh and Kolkata cop Abhijit Mondal face proof tampering cost
Kolkata:
Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital, tried to downplay the 31-year-old physician’s rape-murder as an incident of suicide and this will have led to the destruction of proof, probe company CBI has instructed a Kolkata courtroom.
Dr Ghosh, earlier arrested in a case of monetary irregularities on the state-run hospital, now faces a cost of tampering with proof within the heinous case that has shocked the nation. Abhijit Mondal, officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station, has additionally been arrested on this case.
In line with the CBI’s remand be aware submitted in courtroom yesterday, Dr Ghosh acquired details about the incident at 9.58 am on August 9, however didn’t attain the hospital instantly and didn’t register a proper grievance with the police. The CBI’s be aware says a “new concept of suicide” was launched regardless of exterior damage marks on the sufferer’s physique. The medical doctors’ mother and father have additionally stated a cellphone name from the hospital instructed them that their daughter had died by suicide.
The CBI has stated that Dr Ghosh was in contact with the police officer and an advocate after the sufferer was discovered raped and murdered. The previous principal didn’t even meet the sufferer’s mother and father after they got here to the hospital to seek out their daughter raped and murdered. Dr Ghosh failed to make sure the well timed completion of medical formalities after the incident and requested subordinates to ship the physique to the morgue instantly, the CBI instructed the courtroom.
In its remand be aware in opposition to the police officer, the CBI stated that Mr Mondal acquired data after the heinous crime at 10.03 am, however reached the hospital an hour later.
The primary Basic Diary Entry, CBI has stated, talked about that the “physique of PG trainee of R G Kar MCH was discovered mendacity in unconscious state” even after the physique was examined and the sufferer discovered useless. The company stated the police officer failed to make sure well timed registration of the FIR regardless of the heinous nature of the crime.
The officer, the CBI stated, did not cordon off the crime scene. This led to unauthorised folks getting into the crime scene and led to wreck of important proof, it has stated. The company has additionally held him liable for the delay within the concern of the dying certificates and post-mortem.
The CBI underlined that the police officer acquired details about the case at 10.03 am, however the FIR was filed late at night time — a difficulty that has been repeatedly flagged within the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom and the Supreme Courtroom.
The officer, the CBI stated, hurriedly allowed the physique’s cremation regardless of the relations particularly demanding a second post-mortem. The company has stated that the police officer began the investigation with an try to vitiate proof and remained evasive when the CBI questioned him.
The Kolkata courtroom yesterday granted the CBI two days’ custody of Dr Ghosh and Mr Mondal. The matter will probably be heard tomorrow.
Mr Mondal’s lawyer stated there was no floor to arrest the police officer. “They allege there was a delay. They do not say whether or not I’m an accused or a witness. There isn’t any floor for arrest right here. That is at greatest a case of alleged dereliction of obligation. For that, a departmental inquiry may have been performed.”
Dr Ghosh and Mr Mondal are the CBI’s first arrests within the rape-murder case. They’re accused of being part of an alleged cover-up by the hospital administration after the physician was discovered raped and murdered. Earlier, the Kolkata police arrested Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer who frequented the hospital, for allegedly raping and murdering the physician. Roy’s custody was handed over to the CBI after the central company took over the probe after a excessive courtroom order.
