A Kolkata doctor was raped and murdered the night before. What the CBI found
According to CBI sources, it does not appear that the four doctors were involved in the crime in Kolkata, but the agency wants to know if they tampered with evidence in any way
According to sources from the CBI, four colleagues of the 31-year-old doctor, who was raped and murdered in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, will be tested with lie detectors because their statements contradict one another. Two postgraduate trainees, a house surgeon, and an intern are among them.
In the central agency, sources say the four doctors do not appear to have been involved in crimes, but it wants to find out if they tampered with evidence or were part of a conspiracy. During the night before the doctor was sexually assaulted and murdered, investigators have also been able to piece together the sequence of events.
According to Kolkata Police's timeline of events, one of these doctors saw the victim's body in the seminar hall around 9.30 am the next day and alerted the authorities. It is revealed in the timeline that the city police had questioned all four doctors before the CBI took over.
CBI's Findings: What Does It Mean?
CBI has found fingerprints on two of these four doctors in the seminar room on the third floor where the body was found. A CCTV camera had captured the house surgeon going from the first floor to the third floor that night. The house surgeon has said that he went to the third floor at 2.45 am that night. According to the CBI, the intern was on the third floor at the time and had spoken to the victim.
That night, what happened
Per the sources, the victim and two first-year postgraduate trainees had dinner at midnight before heading to the seminar room to watch Neeraj Chopra compete in the javelin event at the Olympics. At around 2 am, the two colleagues retired to the sleep room while the victim remained in the seminar room. Meanwhile, according to the intern's statement, he was present in the interns' room. It is worth noting that all three rooms (the seminar hall, sleep room, and interns' room) are situated in close proximity on the third floor.
Aftermath
As the ward rounds began at 9.30 am, a postgraduate trainee doctor, with whom the victim had dinner the night before, went looking for her. According to the Kolkata Police timeline, he found her body motionless from a distance. Informing his colleagues and senior doctors, he alerted hospital authorities.
Lie-Detector Tests
The CBI has received permission for the CBI to conduct the lie-detector test on the four doctors and Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who has drawn fire for his handling of the situation. In a special court yesterday, this was approved. Only a court permission and the suspect's consent are required to conduct a lie detector test.