KOLKATA: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was arrested on Saturday for the brutal rape-murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee physician at RG Kar Hospital, barely six hours after the police pressure arrange a seven-member Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) to analyze the case.
The SIT had picked up the 33-year-old accused for questioning just a little earlier than midnight on Friday.
Roy, recruited in 2019, had on a number of events been posted at RG Kar Hospital’s police outpost, typically for lengthy stretches, and due to this fact had quick access to each division of the hospital.
What gave him away was a torn earphone discovered within the seminar room on the third flooring of the emergency constructing the place the younger physician’s physique was discovered on Friday.
CCTV footage additionally confirmed Roy getting into the emergency constructing at 4 am with a bluetooth system spherical his neck. When he exited the constructing 40 minutes later, the earphone was lacking. The system later paired together with his cellphone.
The official postmortem report late on Friday additionally confirmed sexual assault on the 31-year-old doctor. The report stated there have been a number of indicators of accidents and wrestle on the physique.
There have been blood stains on the face, eyes and face, scratch marks on numerous elements of the physique and bleeding from the personal elements.
There have been accidents on the lips, stomach, proper hand and fingers whereas a collar bone was damaged.
“We collected proof all by way of the night time and arrested the accused attributable to his robust complicity within the case based mostly on gadgets collected from the spot and CCTV footage,” police commissioner Vineet Goyal stated.
Roy was produced in a Sealdah court docket, the place no lawyer agreed to characterize him. The court docket despatched him to 14 days’ police custody after the general public prosecutor in contrast the R G Kar incident with the 2012 Nirbhaya case.
Waves of protests engulfed RG Kar all by way of Saturday and unfold to hospitals throughout Bengal. Junior docs, home employees and interns on different campuses, together with at nodal metropolis hospitals like NRS, Medical School and CNMC, stayed away from work demanding higher safety and exemplary punishment for the accused.
‘Accused failed to elucidate his presence at hospital’
Investigation revealed the physician was asleep when civic volunteer Sanjay Roy attacked her within the seminar room.
She and her two juniors had ordered meals post-midnight and a minimum of 5 docs had dinner collectively within the seminar room whereas watching Neeraj Chopra win silver within the Olympics.
Put up-dinner, the others left whereas she determined to check and relaxation for some time. In line with sources, she was noticed sleeping within the seminar room a minimum of until 3 am.
Roy, sources stated, first entered the RG Kar premises round 11 pm. He was already intoxicated. He left the hospital complicated quickly and reportedly drank some extra. Round 4 am, he was seen getting into the emergency constructing and exiting 40 minutes later.
CCTV footage confirmed 5 others had accessed the realm across the seminar corridor on the third flooring, however solely Roy couldn’t clarify his presence.
He later confessed to the crime and admitted throttling the physician after she put up a wrestle.
Safety guards on the hospital stated Roy often visited the hospital whereas some alleged he acted as a tout, slicing offers with sufferers to get them providers.
As protest engulfed the campus, members of a number of leftist scholar and youth organisations, college students and junior docs from different campuses reached RG Kar and scuffled with cops.
As police tried to barricade ‘outsiders,’ protesting docs and college students inside stated they didn’t need any political color to the motion and anybody wishing to affix their protest was welcome to take action as a standard citizen.
