KOLKATA: The order to demolish a bathroom for docs and a workers rest room at R G Kar Medical Faculty & Hospital was issued by then principal Sandip Ghosh a day after a 31-year-old PGT physician was discovered raped and murdered within the seminar corridor throughout the work space. The demolished rooms are located diagonally throughout the seminar corridor the place the on-duty deceased physician’s physique was discovered on the morning of Aug 9.
Whereas officers of the PWD civil division have informed CBI officers that the instruction to demolish the room and bathroom had been expressly given by the ex-principal, the order (memo no RKC/4197 dated Aug 10, 2024) is proof that the choice to undertake the renovation was taken even because the campus was on the boil over the rape-murder.
In line with the memo, the choice to urgently pull down the rooms was mentioned and resolved at a gathering with the principal well being secretary and medical schooling director at RGKMCH on the morning of Aug 10. Thereafter, a ‘web site inspection’ was carried out that very day.
Given the proximity of the work web site to the seminar corridor the place the physique of the PGT physician was discovered, the timing of the choice has raised questions in regards to the intent behind the actions. Some junior docs suspect that the rooms that have been demolished could have been linked to the crime scene along with seminar corridor.
CBI sources mentioned these are the very questions with which the investigators have confronted Ghosh to find out the extent of cover-up tried by officers of RGKMCH led by Ghosh in addition to well being division who ratified the choice. The ex-principal is at the moment in CBI custody on corruption expenses. “We’ve already suspected an try to change the crime scene and intimated that to the Supreme Court docket,” a CBI officer mentioned. Sources mentioned that the company has submitted the small print of the demolition to the apex court docket.
In line with CBI, if the rooms have been certainly linked to the place of prevalence, then it may have supplied essential results in Kolkata Police and them. A 3D laser scan of a room could have revealed blood stains, finger prints, hair follicles and different traces of an individual or individuals current within the room. This might have helped investigators reconstruct the occasions and corroborate witnesses’ statements. The CBI has additionally alleged that by the point it took over the probe on Aug 13, the crime scene had been altered.
The handwritten minutes of the assembly on Aug 10, signed by the then chest division head Dr Arunbha Dutta Chaudhuri, states {that a} joint inspection was carried out on the web site on that very day. CBI sources mentioned Chaudhuri, too, could be requested to elucidate the urgency a day after a division’s physician was brutally murdered there. Police mentioned the room that was partially broken was the sleep room. “There was a affected person whose sleep sample was being monitored by two docs until 1 am on Aug 9. The 2 then slept there. Concerning the bathroom, we had our personal scientific wing checking for primary forensic proof like blood marks. We discovered none,” an officer mentioned. Docs mentioned the docs’ room is totally different from the sleep clinic.
