KOLKATA: Eighteen docs, nurses and healthcare employees of R G Kar Medical Faculty, who had been vilified on social media as being “lacking” since Aug 9, the day the PGT physician was discovered raped and murdered, had truly been serving to each Kolkata Police and CBI with the investigation and aiding them piece collectively the sequence occasions. Removed from being lacking, as claimed on-line, these 18 healthcare employees appeared earlier than investigators a number of instances and their statements have been recorded.
Of them, 11—4 physician colleagues of the sufferer who had been on responsibility along with her that night time and nurses—believed to be acquainted with the info and circumstances of the case, had been examined a number of instances, stated an officer. A few of them had been final to see her alive. All of them now fashioned a key a part of the case diary and probe, stated CBI, including their particular person roles had been being corroborated. All of them cooperated, stated KP in addition to CBI officers, and now their statements had been being cross-checked with others’ in addition to different proof. 4 docs amongst them would even be topic to polygraph checks, stated an officer. “These docs studied with the sufferer. They had been virtually the final ones to see her alive. A primary-year PGT physician was the primary to identify her physique. Their roles are of paramount significance,” stated a CBI officer.
“Although my son stored assembly the investigators, his photographs had been shared on-line, labelling him as a offender,” stated a mother or father of one of many vilified healthcare employees outdoors the CBI’s workplace at CGO complicated on Thursday. TOI had earlier reported on a Bankura trainer lodging a police criticism for his son being wrongfully recognized as a “minister’s son, supposedly a shielded offender”.
A day after the incident, notices had been served on the 4 docs, who had been along with her on night time responsibility, to seem for examination. “Detailed and extended” examinations of 12 docs and nurses was held on Aug 12. On Aug 13, statements of senior docs, together with HoD, chest division, Arunava Dutta Choudhury, and the asst tremendous had been recorded. Eight junior docs had been once more examined. A number of docs had been requested to report back to CBI, too.
