A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and homicide of a second-year postgraduate trainee physician at metropolis’s RG Kar Hospital the day past.
Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member particular investigation group (SIT) was arrange. The 35-year-old was produced in an area court docket, the place no lawyer agreed to symbolize him.
The court docket despatched Roy to 14 days’ police custody after the general public prosecutor likened the assault on the 31-year-old physician to the 2012 Nirbhaya case. CM Mamata Banerjee stated “if wanted, the accused might be hanged”.
Torn earphone gave away Kolkata rapist-killer
Roy is a civic volunteer. Such volunteers assist cops in non-law enforcement roles and, whereas they’re paid by the state, they don’t seem to be formally a part of the pressure.
Recruited in 2019, Roy had on a number of events been posted at RG Kar Hospital’s police outpost and, due to this fact, had quick access to each division. What gave him away was a torn earphone discovered within the seminar room on the third ground of the emergency constructing the place the physician’s physique was discovered early Friday. CCTV footage confirmed Roy getting into the emergency constructing at 4am with a Bluetooth system plugged into his ears. When he exited the constructing 40 minutes later, the earphone was lacking. The system later paired along with his cellphone, cops stated.
The postmortem report late Friday confirmed sexual assault on the physician. The report stated there have been a number of indicators of accidents and battle on the physique — bloodstains on the face, eyes and face, scratch marks and wounds within the personal components. A collar bone was damaged.
“We arrested the accused attributable to his sturdy complicity within the case primarily based on objects collected from the spot and CCTV footage,” Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal stated
Investigations revealed the physician was asleep when Roy attacked her. She and her two juniors ordered meals post-midnight and not less than 5 docs had dinner collectively within the seminar room whereas watching Neeraj Chopra win silver within the Olympics. Submit-dinner, the others left whereas she determined to review and relaxation for some time. In response to sources, she was noticed sleeping within the seminar room not less than until 3am.
Roy, sources stated, first entered the RG Kar Hospital premises round 11pm. He was intoxicated. He left the hospital complicated quickly and reportedly drank some extra. Round 4am, he was seen getting into the emergency constructing. CCTV footage confirmed 5 others had accessed the world however solely Roy couldn’t clarify his presence. He later confessed to the crime and admitted throttling the physician after she put up a battle.
Waves of protests engulfed RG Kar all by means of Saturday at the same time as junior docs, home employees and interns in different metropolis hospitals stayed away from work demanding higher safety and exemplary punishment for the accused.
In her first response to the crime, the CM known as it “despicable” and stated the younger physician’s loss of life felt “like a private loss”. “I’ve directed it to be taken to a fast-track court docket. If wanted, the accused might be hanged. Although I’m not pro-capital punishment, he ought to be given the strictest punishment,” she advised a information channel. She made it clear she had no objections if the physician’s household demanded a probe by a central company. The CM additionally acknowledged that the agitating docs’ anger was “justified”.
