PG Medico Rape-Murder Case: Former RG Kar Principal questioned by CBI for second day
Kolkata: The controversial former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, Sandip Ghosh has once again appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning on Saturday for the second consecutive day in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a postgraduate student at the hospital.
Earlier, the agency escorted the former hospital principal for questioning on Friday after he allegedly avoided repeated summons by CBI officials to appear for questioning following the Calcutta High Court order that asked Ghosh to appear before the agency.
As per a TOI news report, the agency yesterday detained Ghosh near the City Centre in Salt Lake, asked him to leave his vehicle, and then took him to the CBI office in their car.
Upon his arrival, Ghosh was made to sit in a room at the CBI’s city office here at the CGO Complex till 9.30 pm after which the grilling session started which lasted till 3 am on Saturday.
It was revealed that the agency brought him in for interrogation on Friday after the Calcutta High Court declined to consider Ghosh's request for security, which he sought due to feeling threatened upon being summoned by the agency.
Today, Ghosh reached the CBI office for the second time a little before 10.30 am for his second round of examination.
During his first round of questioning, the former principal was asked about his first reaction after getting the news of the doctor’s death whom he instructed to inform the family and how and who contacted the police, the officer said.
As per The Statesman, Ghosh was also asked questions about whether he had ordered the demolition of the washroom near the seminar hall in the chest medicine department under the name of renovation work to tamper with evidence related to the incident.
“Certain answers were convoluted. He was grilled till early Saturday and then allowed to leave for home,” the officer told PTI. Ghosh was also asked about the weekly roster where the victim was seen to be put on duty for gruelling 36 hours or at times even 48 hours, he said.
The former principal had resigned from the post two days after the body was discovered. He had expressed fears of being attacked, prompting his lawyer to seek protection from the Calcutta High Court. However, the court directed him to approach a single bench.
CBI summons 4 doctors
On Friday, four doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital were summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Kolkata in connection with the case. According to the sources, the CBI interrogated these PGT (PG trainees) regarding what happened the night of the incident.
On Thursday, the CBI questioned three batchmates of the trainee doctor who were on duty on the night of August 8. The former head of the chest medicine department of the hospital was also questioned by the central probe agency.
Parents claim colleagues involved in crime
The parents of the woman doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last week, have told the CBI that a few interns and physicians of the same medical establishment were involved in the crime.
The parents also provided the central agency, which is conducting the probe into the case on an order of the Calcutta High Court, with names of those who they suspect to be associated with their daughter’s killing in the state-run hospital.
“The parents told us that they suspect the involvement of multiple persons behind the sexual assault and murder of their daughter. They have given us names of a few interns and doctors working with their daughter at the RG Kar Hospital,” the CBI officer told PTI.
The central agency officer said that they were giving priority to questioning the doctors and officers of the Kolkata Police who were part of the investigation.
“We have zeroed in on at least 30 names whom we will be calling for questioning. We have already started questioning them,” he said.
The body of the post-graduate trainee was found in the RG Kar Hospital’s seminar room on August 9. The police arrested a civic volunteer the next day in this connection. The CBI on Friday took the arrested man to the Hospital for a reconstruction of the crime scene, the source said.
