The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday alleged a “larger conspiracy” and “deep nexus” between the hospital authorities and a section of the police in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case.

A day after arresting Abhijit Mondal the officer in-charge of the Tala Police Station and re-arresting former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh — who is already in jail in custody on charges of corruption — the CBI advocates told the Sealdah Court that the two sides had conspired to destroy evidence and hush up the case.

Both Mondal and Ghosh were given three-day CBI remand by the designated court.

Terming the incident an “institutional murder” the CBI pointed out in point 8 of the remand letter how the officer in-charge showed extra hurry in allowing the cremation of the victim’s body. The police “allowed cremation in a hurried manner when the family members demanded second autopsy,” the remand letter said questioning the gap of more than 14 hours between the timing when the report of the incident was first received by the police (at 10.03 am) and lodging of the FIR (at 11.30 pm).    

Not only this the officer in-charge of the police station came a “full one hour late,” the CBI told the court adding how a general diary number 542 was registered describing unconscious state of the victim when the “doctors of the medical college had already examined the body in a dead condition.”

The CBI was trying to understand the reason behind the “intentional mistake” left by the police, the lawyer said. The lawyer also told the court that “the way the hospital authorities insisted in conducting the postmortem inside the same hospital where the incident took place and that too after sunset,” was highly suspicious.

Besides, when one of the autopsy surgeons asked for the requisite police permission for the postmortem to be done post sunset a sub-inspector of the Tala Police Station was allegedly asked to write the letter of permission which was beyond his authority, sources quoting the CBI lawyer said.   

A postgraduate lady doctor of the RGKMCH was raped and murdered in the wee hours of August 8 explaining the “deep nexus” between a section of the police and the hospital authorities, the CBI said. CBI added that there was evidence to show that on the day of the incident Ghosh and Mondal had multiple telephonic conversations.

Besides, “Mondal allowed the entire crime scene to be crowded by hospital people and outsiders for hours … people came and went and evidence was allowed to be tampered,” lawyers said, adding this took place in front of some of the topmost officers of Kolkata Police.   

The CBI sources also said that apart from Mondal there were four more police officers who were under their scanner. Among them, there was an Indian Police Services officer.

“Notices would soon be served to some of these officers for interrogation,” sources in the central agency said adding however, that there was “nothing between the CBI and the police,” and that “all the steps that are being taken are taken in the interest of the investigation.”