KOLKATA: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was taken into custody on Saturday in reference to the brutal rape and homicide of a second-year postgraduate trainee physician at RG Kar Hospital. The arrest got here simply six hours after the police power had shaped a seven-member Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) to look into the case.
On Sunday, investigators found probably the most compelling proof in opposition to Sanjay Roy, the prime suspect within the rape and homicide of the 31-year-old physician.Traces of blood and pores and skin discovered underneath the sufferer’s fingernails completely matched Roy’s DNA and corresponded to the accidents he sustained through the assault, mentioned a senior cop.
In accordance with a senior police officer, the sufferer, regardless of being half-asleep, had put up a determined struggle in opposition to her attacker, and it was this battle that supplied investigators with the essential proof they wanted to hyperlink Roy to the crime.
What does the postmortem report say?
- The report mentioned the demise was as a consequence of smothering and throttling.
- Prima facie, demise has been as a consequence of gagging and there have been a number of indicators of accidents and battle on the physique.
- The mouth and throat had been always pressed to stop screaming. The throat was strangled to suffocate. The thyroid cartilage broke as a consequence of this strangulation.
- There have been blood stains on the face, eyes and face, scratch marks on varied components of the physique and bleeding from the personal components.
- There have been accidents on the lips, stomach, proper hand and fingers whereas a collar bone was damaged.
- There are aberration marks and bruise marks on the sufferer’s face, on the eyes until the neck.
- The scratch marks on the girl’s face, probably attributable to the accused’s fingernails, counsel that she desperately tried to struggle again.
- The report mentions that the accused “acquired sure benefit because the sufferer was in deep sleep on the time of the assault.”
- She had tried to withstand, and there have been deep mark accidents and scratches on the palms of the accused as nicely.
- The report, nevertheless, mentioned that there have been no fracture or breakage of the collar bone or pelvis as reported earlier within the preliminary section of commentary.
What are preliminary forensic findings?
- The scratch mark accidents on Sanjay’s physique matched with the pores and skin and blood samples collected from the nails of the sufferer.
The homicide has triggered widespread outrage with medical doctors and nurses protesting in Kolkata and different components of India. Outpatient providers and routine surgical procedures had been severely disrupted in authorities hospitals nationwide on Monday as resident medical doctors protested the rape and homicide of a colleague at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical School and Hospital. The demonstrations had been most outstanding in Delhi and Kolkata, which turned the focal factors of the protest.
The protesting medical doctors are calling for a CBI investigation into the incident and the pressing implementation of a central regulation to safeguard healthcare employees from violence.
Sandip Ghosh, the principal of RG Kar Medical School, has resigned from his publish within the wake of the incident. Inside 4 hours, he was appointed because the principal of Calcutta Nationwide Medical School (CNMC).
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has warned the Kolkata police that the investigation will probably be transferred to the CBI if they’re unable to resolve the case by Sunday.
