KOLKATA: The costs towards former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh and former Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mandal have been “grave” and, if confirmed, may result in “capital punishment”, a CBI court docket listening to the RG Kar rape-and-murder case stated on Wednesday.
Justice of the Peace Shibasis Dey, in his written order that might be accessed on Thursday, stated the CBI “investigation was on in full swing” and saved each Ghosh and Mandal in custody until subsequent Monday.
“The character and gravity of the accusation is grave and, if proved, there is likely to be a capital punishment, which is just given in rarest of uncommon instances,” the Justice of the Peace stated, including that granting bail in such a case could be flouting the rules of fairness.
An individual may commit an offence with out instantly being current on the scene of crime, the Justice of the Peace added in an vital commentary, noting the CBI’s argument of “collective participation” within the crime.
Ghosh’s lawyer, Zohaib Rauf, claimed he had been falsely implicated within the rape-and-murder case. Mandal’s lawyer, Ayan Bhattacharya, argued that the CBI had violated numerous provisions of regulation whereas arresting him and the allegations towards him may advantage bail.
The CBI, which is probing the bigger conspiracy of destruction of proof within the rape and homicide of the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital junior physician, has come throughout a number of obvious irreguralities within the publish mortem course of. The company has questioned Apurba Biswas, head of the three-doctor panel that performed the autopsy investigation, 4 instances.
