KOLKATA: Purported recordings of three cellphone conversations over eight minutes between a consultant of Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital and the household of the junior physician discovered raped and murdered on Aug 9 went viral on Thursday, matching what CBI says the official informed interrogators that she was “underneath directions” to lie on every event.
Sucharita Sarkar, the hospital’s non-medical assistant superintendent, made the primary name at 10.53am, greater than an hour after Sumit Roy Tapadar, assistant professor of respiratory medication, alerted police a few 31-year-old intern being discovered useless on campus.
Based mostly on the calls, the sufferer’s dad and mom have alleged a cover-up.
Calls to oldsters made lengthy after Kolkata hospital informed cops about demise
Every time, a lady offered conflicting details about my daughter’s situation,” the physician’s father stated. “It was solely through the third name that the caller recognized herself as an assistant superintendent of the hospital.”
The truth that the calls have been made lengthy after the hospital informed police in regards to the demise have added to the household’s misery. A police group was at RG Kar hospital by 10.10am. The junior physician’s physique was noticed round 9.30am.
“Are you able to come instantly?” a voice stated to be Sarkar’s is heard telling the sufferer’s father within the first of three audio clips circulating on-line. She tells him his daughter has taken in poor health however doesn’t elaborate. When the daddy seeks particulars in regards to the sickness, the caller replies, “Medical doctors will inform you when you come. We received your quantity and known as you.” The dialog lasts 32 seconds.
The second name, 18 seconds lengthy, was apparently made by the junior physician’s father to Sarkar inside 5 minutes of the primary. “We have now taken your daughter to the emergency room. She is crucial. Please come quick,” Sarkar says within the clip.
A voice stated to be of the sufferer’s mom is heard saying within the background that her daughter was imagined to be “on responsibility” earlier than the decision is disconnected.
The third name, made by Sarkar to the household inside three minutes of the second, breaks the information of the junior physician’s demise. “She has died by suicide, maybe…We’re in entrance of the hospital with everybody. Please come quick,” the caller says through the dialog lasting 56 seconds.
Sarkar didn’t reply to calls and texts from TOI.
The sufferer’s father stated Thursday that he recorded every of the three calls however wasn’t conscious of how they turned public. The recordings are a part of the docket police gave to CBI when the central company took over the probe on Calcutta HC’s orders.
In her assertion to CBI and police, Sarkar stated RG Kar hospital’s head of respiratory medication, Arunabha Dutta Chowdhury, instructed her to name the household however not reveal the reality, fearing they “wouldn’t be capable to bear the shock”. CBI sources quoted Sarkar as saying she turned more and more “nervous” with every name and blurted out the phrase “suicide” through the third dialog.
“The audio clips buttress our model,” stated Kolkata Police DCP Indira Mukherjee. “Police by no means made any name to the household to inform them that the sufferer’s demise was by suicide. The audio clips verify that.”
The sufferer’s mom pointed to “inconsistencies” in particulars of how her daughter’s physique was discovered. “In accordance with a colleague of my daughter, round 3am, she was discovered sleeping within the seminar corridor, lined in a crimson scarf. Nonetheless, a video clip later aired on information channels confirmed her physique wrapped in a blue scarf. After we have been allowed to enter the seminar corridor to establish the physique round 3.30pm, we discovered a inexperienced scarf overlaying her,” she stated.
DCP Mukherjee stated “there was no inexperienced scarf seen or talked about anyplace”. “All case paperwork are with CBI, one may also cross-check with them…There was a judicial inquest, a seizure memo, all of which talked about a blue scarf. Every little thing has been videographed.”
Police stated a crimson scarf could have been utilized by the sufferer when she was asleep, however her assailant solid that off and changed it with a blue scarf as a part of an try and destroy proof.
