The murdered lady doctor from a North Kolkata medical college was subjected to horrific brutalities, according to preliminary postmortem and inquest reports. Referred to as “Abhaya” by her colleagues, the victim suffered ten grievous injuries, evoking memories of the decade-old Nirbhaya case in Delhi, say fellow doctors at RG Kar Medical College, where she was pursuing her postgraduate studies in chest medicine.

“The autopsy report is chilling,” said a fellow doctor, who is participating in the State-wide indefinite cease-work by medical staff.

“She had a finger, collarbone, and pelvic bone broken. She was bleeding from her eyes, lips, abdomen, and private parts. Tufts of her hair had been torn out, and a clip was attached to her private parts,” said the doctor.

Police sources revealed that the brutal attack took place within 30 to 35 minutes. The panel of doctors who conducted the postmortem suggested that she might have been raped after being killed, as it would have been nearly impossible for one person to inflict such extensive injuries in such a short time, said the police.

Family sources shared that the victim was scheduled to get married next year. A colleague from the same college, requesting anonymity, said the young doctor likely endured extreme pain before her death, as a healthy person of her age would not have succumbed quickly.

“The post-mortem reports are not fully out so that we can understand whether it was a gangrape or an act of an individual beast,” she said.

Sanjay Das, a civic volunteer --- unarmed wing of Bengal Police who works on daily wage basis --- was arrested on Saturday for perpetrating the crime.

He is known to have confessed to the crime and even asked his interrogators to hang him as quickly as they could leading to suspicion among the members of the civil society whether the man was being made a scapegoat to save some other people.

This, even as an unsubstantiated audio clipping went viral in the social media where a resident doctor is speaking to another person about efforts to hush up the matter.

In the conversation the twosome are heard to be talking about how the CCTV footages could have been tampered and whether some fellow doctor with high connections could have been involved in the brutal act.

The parents of the victim too said that they were not satisfied with the investigation adding, “there must be some other insider or insiders involved because my daughter used to regularly complain that she did not want to go to the RG Medical College … she was under pressure for something … she was raped and murdered and one person cannot do that alone.”

The Government on Sunday removed the Hospital Superintendant and Vice Principal, whereas the junior doctors and the family members of the victim demanded removal of the Principal, and grilling of the fellow doctors including the Head of the Department of the Department of Chest Medicine.

Meanwhile, Bengal BJP president and junior Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Health Minister JP Nadda seeking his “prompt intervention” in getting justice for the deceased doctor.

“I have written a letter to JP Nadda ji who is also the Health Minister and BJP president to see to it that Medical Council of India sends a team of experts to inspect the security and safety scenario of all the medical colleges and other hospitals of Bengal … there is no security for the doctors and the TMC men are controlling the entire thing,” Majumdar said also demanding a CBI investigation into the matter.

“There is a serious effort to hush up the matter apparently to save some influential person … even this civic volunteer who has been arrested is a member of the police organization affiliated to the TMC,” Majumdar said adding the BJP would continue to stand by the agitating doctors and go to any extent for getting justice to the victim.

Incidentally, TMC national general secretary and party's second in command had on Saturday advocated “encounter” for “such culprits involved in such heinous acts.” He said, “I will appeal to the Centre to bring such laws that such accused can be arrested tried summarily and then encountered in a week's time to make it a lesson for the others.”