The crime scene in the RG Kar case “was not in well-preserved condition, there were evidences of disturbances evident on the scene”, a team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Delhi, has said in its report, which is now part of a Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital. The 12-page report is dated September 11.
The report, compiled by a 14-member multi-institutional medical board (MIMB) comprising senior doctors, scientists and forensic experts who visited the crime scene several times, came days after the August 9 rape and murder of the junior doctor in the seminar room of the hospital, triggering massive protests by doctors in the state.
Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer working for Kolkata police, was arrested in connection with the crime on August 10.
Significantly, former RG Kar director Sandeep Ghosh has been accused of having ordered renovation at the hospital just after the rape and murder came to light. This was after a memo, allegedly issued on the West Bengal government’s letterhead to its Public Works Department and calling for urgent repairs at the hospital a day after the rape and murder, led to allegations of a “cover-up” and “evidence tampering” against Ghosh.
In its report, the CFSL team claimed it had “forensically meditated on the given inputs vis-à-vis actual SOC (scene of crime) condition”.
“Here one demolished wall was evidently corresponding pre-presence of a door area, another demolished wall area was having fixed and functional electric peripherals and as such did not correspond to pre-presence of a particular passage. The concrete materials, building materials, broken tiles were found scattered on the floor of the said rooms and corridor also evaluated forensically by the CFSL team. The adjacent room (meant for inhouse doctors’ rest purposes) was also found to be demolished in unprofessional manner. Its wall was found smashed that was corresponding to an entry gate,” the report said.
“In this restroom, some patient beds and wooden furniture with dirty mattresses/bedsheets were kept haphazardly, whereas, demolished concrete material was not found. The two wooden gate frames (stated to be removed) were found to be kept in front of the demolished wall of the Room 1 (seminar room) in the corridor area,” it said.
Evidence of possible struggle “shown by the victim to the assailant or fight in between them found missing in the shown area of occurrence,” the report states. “There is less possibility that someone (in the presence of the official attendees present in the 24×7 operational hospital corridor, doctor’s duty-nursing station area) can enter into the seminar hall unnoticed, for committing offence,” it states.
The findings have come into the public domain at a time when the parents of the victim moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a fresh investigation into the case, saying they didn’t have faith in the current investigation led by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which took over investigation into the case in August from the Kolkata Police on the directions of the Calcutta High Court.
The parents’ decision to move the HC comes days after a local court granted bail to Ghosh and Abhijit Mondol, the former officer-in-charge of Tala police station after the CBI failed to submit its chargesheet against them within the mandated 90 days.
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