Discrepancies in the statements provided by the people interrogated in the Kolkata lady doctor rape and murder case apart from several other "relevant facts" seem to have left the Central Bureau of Investigation officials in a fix.
The CBI officials have come to know that a number of telephone calls and messages were sent and received by people — including senior officials of the RG Kar Medical College Hospital where the incident took place and the state administration, sources say.
The officials have found that some officials of the hospital had called up some people and received a call from at least one person "who could be in the state health administration." Messages too were sent and instructions that had influenced subsequent acts of the hospital authorities were received, sources said adding such messages have been deleted from the mobile call details of the staff interrogated thus far.Among these staff is the former Principal of the Hospital Sandip Ghosh as also some Head of the departments and senior doctors.
The body of a postgraduate lady doctor of the department of chest medicine was found in a seminude condition inside the seminar room of the hospital in the wee hours of August 8 leading to a country wide protest from the medical fraternity and the general public mostly women.
"The question is who made the calls and to whom … and what instructions were received and whether the such instructions had anything to do with the police being called at a later stage or the attempt to let the rape and murder pass off as a suicide," sources privy to the investigation process say wondering as to who directed the police to cremate the body of the victim in a hurry apparently to subvert the chance of a second postmortem.
"Whether the hospital authorities were acting according to the instructions received from someone higher up … whether the then Principal was taking instructions from anyone placed higher than him," is the question that he has evaded thus far, sources say.