KOLKATA, Sep 25: Some records pertaining to the rape and murder case of a post-graduate trainee doctor at RG Kar medical college and hospital were “falsely created” and “altered” at the Tala police station in Kolkata, the CBI has alleged.
The central probe agency has told a special court in Kolkata that it has seized CCTV footage of the police station which has been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Kolkata, for examination, they said.
The CBI which interrogated Tala Police Station officer in charge Abhijit Mondal and medical college’s former principal Sandip Ghosh in its custody informed the court that “new/additional” facts emerged in its probe showing that “some false records pertaining to the instant case were created/altered in PS Tala”.The agency produced Mondal and Ghosh after the completion of their remand on Wednesday. The special court sent them to judicial custody till September 30, they said.
The central probe agency had arrested Mondal on September 14 while Ghosh, who was already in judicial custody in corruption, was taken into custody in the rape and murder case on September 15 after the orders of the court, they said.
The CBI had arrested prime suspect Sanjay Roy on August 10 on the next day of the gruesome incident after “his role in the commission of crime had already emerged”.
It has alleged that an “unnecessary delay of two days” was caused in the seizure of his clothes and belongings that could have resulted in strong evidence against him, they said The CBI is now probing criminal conspiracy, if any, between Roy, Ghosh and Mondal.
BJP stages sit-in, demands Mamata’s resignation
The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Wednesday staged a sit-in in Hazra area of south Kolkata in close proximity of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence, demanding her resignation over the rape-murder incident in RG Kar Hospital.Leader of Opposition in the assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, criticised the state government over the incident while BJP activists displayed placards calling for justice for the young doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered at the state-run hospital last month.“We demand the immediate resignation of the chief minister for her failure to ensure the safety of women at the workplace and for attempting to cover up the incident,” Adhikari said, while addressing the BJP workers at the sit-in venue.He alleged that crucial evidence in the rape-murder case was destroyed in an alleged attempt to protect the culprits.(PTI)
