Was the murdered doctor from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital aware of any threats to her life? And if so, who were her tormentors? As they work to answer these questions, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials are focusing on the victim’s personal diary and statements from her family, including her father, regarding the events leading up to the alleged rape and murder inside the hospital premises on the night of August 8 and 9.
Sources indicated that CBI officials have identified around thirty individuals of interest in their investigation, including some doctors, interns, senior nurses, and other hospital staff. According to these sources, the victim’s father informed investigators that his daughter had recently expressed reluctance to perform night shifts. She had also voiced suspicions about certain colleagues, fearing that they might cause her harm. The CBI is now meticulously examining her personal diary to gather as much information as possible about her concerns and the potential threats she faced.
The victim’s father reportedly informed investigators, citing some of her colleagues, that she may have been murdered elsewhere and then her body was moved to the seminar hall of the Department of Chest Medicine, where she was a final-year postgraduate trainee.
CBI officials, who interrogated Sandip Ghosh — the influential former principal of the college, known for his close ties with the topmost family in the State — for approximately 13 and a half hours on Friday night, resumed questioning him on Saturday. Sources suggested that Ghosh has started to crack under CBI pressure, and the interrogation was ongoing at the time of the last reports. On Saturday, a team of CBI officials visited the crime scene inside the hospital for the second time, equipped with three-dimensional cameras and other instruments to gather additional evidence.
Simultaneously, another group of officials visited the Bhawanipore residence of Sanjoy Das, a civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police and the prime accused, who was arrested several days ago. A third team went to the Belgachia Police Barracks, where Das had recently been living, reportedly using his influence to secure accommodation.
“You put your ear to the walls of the Hospital and you will get to know who killed her … even the CBI officials might have known about them by now … the only thing is that they need evidence … if at all that have not been destroyed by the college authorities and the police in the,” an agitating nurse of the hospital said adding “she had perhaps come to know about some closely guarded secret of the highly connected who have been running a multi-crore racket in the hospital ... she was paid with her life for not taking their offer and acting according to their desire.”
Others in the hospital said that those who raped and killed the lady doctor even sat around her corpse for some time discussing the next course of action and accordingly the family was informed about the suicide.
“Though they informed was initially informed about her suicide they perhaps failed to make the situation look like one because by that time juniors and other staff had started assembling around the area,” a junior doctor said requesting anonymity.
Meanwhile the members of third sex too joined doctors in their agitation demanding justice for the murdered lady doctor and safety for women in work place.
A huge humanity including women, members of transgender community, students and doctors on Saturday took out a procession from College Square to RGKMCH and jostled with the police who tried to stop them.
Members of Indian Medical Association that had called a nationwide strike on Saturday hit the streets at various places in Kolkata and districts. The doctors took part in processions at Cooch Behar, Durgapur, Malda, Kolkata, Diamond Harbour many other places demanding justice and security in work places sources said.
