GUWAHATI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday, October 7 filed a charge sheet against the prime accused, Sanjay Roy, in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, officials said.
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The incident caused widespread outrage and led to a long strike by junior doctors in West Bengal. The accused Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer attached to the police outpost of the hospital, was arrested soon after and subsequently, the case was handed over to the CBI, reports said.
On August 9, the body of the murdered doctor was found inside the seminar room of RG Kar’s emergency building, where she had gone to rest during her night shift.
On Monday, 58 days after the rape-murder, the CBI filed the first charge sheet in the case – a 45-page document that was submitted to the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Court in Sealdah.
Reports quoting CBI sources said Roy has been charged with rape and murder. There is no mention of a gang rape (in the charge sheet). Roy is the only accused who committed the crime. However, the probe is still going on. He was in an inebriated condition when the crime was committed, the charge sheet mentioned.
According to it, CCTV footage showed Roy entering the seminar room around 4 am on August 9 and leaving after around 30 minutes. The charge sheet also mentioned that there were 16 external and nine internal injuries on the body of the doctor.
In the same case, on September 14, CBI arrested Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College, and Abhijit Mondol, the then officer in-charge of Tala police station, in connection with alleged tampering of evidence and trying to “hush up” the incident.