In the beginning hours of 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old PGT lady doctor was mercilessly tortured, raped and murdered at her workplace, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. Following which tremendous public furore at all levels of society had shaken the collective conscience of the whole country as well as the Indians all around the world. Following the pathetic failure of Kolkata Police in the investigation, the Kolkata High Court handed over the case to the CBI. In spite of so many hindrances like total destruction of evidence and repeated attempts at misdirecting the investigation from all levels of the West Bengal state machinery system; CBI has made marvellous progress so far. Following are the analytical reports of that further investigation.

CBI Visits The Morgue

On 29 August CBI officers visited the morgue of R. G. Kar Hospital to inspect the process and procedure of body preservation, the methods of post mortem and how the cool chambers of the morgue worked.

The Inhuman Phone Calls On 9 August

The three phone calls that came to the parents of the lady doctor from R. G. Kar Hospital giving three different explanations had gone viral first in social media and were being telecast in news channels. Three calls were made by a lady assistant super. In the first call she said their daughter was ill, minutes later in the second call the assistant super said their daughter's condition become so severe that she was being taken to the emergency ward and in the third call the assistant super said their daughter presumably committed suicide.

The points of criticisms were the lack of minimum empathy on the part of the assistant super who also happened to be a woman, towards the parents in a condition like that and the highly insensitive manner in which the woman had conveyed those terrible news to the parents. The manner of communication in those calls construed the hospital's inhuman face absolutely naked in front of the society. All along the helpless father's repeated requests for the exact condition about their daughter were not answered properly. Moreover the careless manner in which the lady assistant super kept on baffling the parents with repeated misinformation had left people wondering about the pathetic condition they were left at. The question loomed large was why CBI didn't interrogate this assistant super in the beginning ! 2

The Mystery Of The Green Blanket

First in the photos of the seminar room it was seen that the lady doctor's body was covered with a blue blanket. But later, in the photo taken by her father on 9 August shown that the body was covered with green blanket and both of her legs were placed on the dais when they saw their daughter's body. In the final photos and videos it was seen that the doctor's left leg was hanging loose outside the dais and her left arm placed around her head. It took minimum sense of reasoning to understand in those critical hours immediately after the rape and murder, her body's positions were changed manually more than once in order to displace the vital evidences. In those hours the green blanket was replaced by the former blue blanket to maintain the continuity of the incident. Touching the body of the raped and murdered victim in the crime scene were unpardonable offences that the hospital authority had desperately committed on the day of 9 August. Unfortunately the Kolkata Police had also denied the presence of that green blanket. A bereaved father could never lie about the incidents related to the his daughter’s death. The thought of applying any kind of computer generated trick on that photo could never have come in his mind in such a time where he just lost his only child. As a person he just happened to be an ordinary tailor who ran a business of preparing school uniforms. So where did that green blanket vanish ? Under whose watchful eyes?

A Viral Photo and The Sceptical Explanation By Kolkata Police

A photo of the R. G. Kar hospital's seminar room on 9 August had gone viral both on social media and the television channels. The photo showed the lady doctor's body surrounded with a white curtain and many persons standing and roaming outside and inside of that curtain. Observing the wild sensation surrounding the photo and it's related public accusation towards Kolkata police, the DC central Indira Mukherjee explained the identities of each person seen in the photo as Kolkata police personnel.

Strangely enough, in the photograph three particular persons were seen. Among them one woman was identified as one of the autopsy doctors who had conducted the inquest on the lady doctor's body. Among the other two persons, one bald headed and wearing a red shirt was identified as Avik Dey who according to Kolkata Police was a forensic expert. But IMA, Bengal Branch had clarified that Avik Dey was in no way a forensic expert. He was a first year post graduate trainee at PG SSKM hospital's surgery department. His admission in the surgery was done under mysterious circumstances. After doing his MBBS from North Bengal Medical College he joined Burdwan Medical College and Hospital. There in association with some Dr. Birupakkho Biswas he used to wield his clout on the med students by threatening them and collecting money illegally. Dr. Birupakkho Biswas was also present in the photo wearing a purple coloured shirt. This person, happened to be a tyrant at Burdwan Medical College who practiced his high handedness on the medical students for quite sometime and had been unofficially and officially blacklisted with several allegations against him. Both Avik Dey and Birupakkho Biswas had no connection with R. G. Kar hospital apart from their close proximity with Sandip Ghosh. So as outsiders what they were doing in those hours of 9 August in that seminar room since outsiders' entry into the crime scene was strictly prohibited as per the law of this country!

CBI Looks Deeper Into PWD Matter

CBI investigated into the procedures of PWD in their distribution of construction and renovation work to the private construction companies in relation to the demolition work of the bathroom beside the seminar room on the 13th of August. This scrutiny will be followed even where PWD himself had performed construction or renovation works of the properties.

CBI Compiles and Matches data

CBI officers were busy arranging the data they had collected so far by interrogation. They were matching the statements of the junior doctors who first saw the lady doctor's body with the same provided by the police personnel who first came into the seminar room.

Apart from interrogating more than two dozen people, CBI had planned to re - interrogate some friends and colleagues of the lady doctor from that list and made another list of people with whom the lady doctor would often talk. Ten persons had gone through polygraph test. But not a single person had been arrested so far.

CBI Arrests Sandip Ghosh

At last! Sandip Ghosh had been apprehended by CBI a little before 7:30 pm on 2nd August at their Nizam Palace office in Kolkata. His arrest was made on the ground of financial irregularities during his tenure as the principal at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. With him his personal bodyguard Afsar Ali Khan and two vendors, Biplab Singh and Suman Hazra, the suppliers of hospital materials at R. G. Kar hospital were also arrested.

In the very beginning, Calcutta High Court had asked why as the principal of R. G. Kar hospital, Sandip Ghosh had not filed a police complaint immediately after the lady doctor's body was found. "Ghosh will be produced before the CBI court in Alipore on Tuesday," an agency official said. He was charged with cheating, criminal conspiracy and offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

"Even after his arrest our agitation will continue." Said Aniket Mahato, a leader of the agitating doctors at R. G. Kar hospital. Speaking at a protest rally towards Lal Bazar to hand over a deputation to the Commissioner of Police, Vineet Goyal for his resignation. " We welcome the arrest, but the health department has still not suspended Ghosh," said one protesting doctor.

Trinamool leader Santanu Sen, secretary of the IMA, Bengal Branch and secretary of R. G. Kar Ex Students Association had said he had alerted the Health Department about the financial atrocities of Sandip Ghosh few years ago. "I had submitted proof of my allegations to the authorities (including) the principal secretary of the health department. For some reason they could not or did not act on it. Had they done so, this situation could have been averted."

March On To Lalbazar, Step Down Police Commissioner

Thousands and thousands of junior doctors headed by West Bengal Junior Doctors Association marched towards LalBazar headquarter of Kolkata Police to demand the resignation of the Police Commissionar Goyal on 2 nd September at 2:30 pm. But they were stopped by a 9 feet high barricade of Kolkata Police at the B B Ganguly St. and Phears Lane crossing, 250m away from Lal Bazar.

The doctors demanded that they be allowed to reach the B. B. Ganguly St. and Bentinck St. crossing. From there a delegation of 22 doctors would meet Commissioner Goyal and hand him the deputation asking him to resign. But after asking about these demands again and again the police did not remove the barricade. The doctors stayed firm on their resolve and objectives and stayed on the road for the entire night. Next day, on 3rd September in the afternoon the police finally agreed to remove the barricade, because they realised that without giving the deputation to commissioner Goyal the doctors wouldn't deter. And this way a main bus root couldn't remain blocked for long. So the police had to agree on the doctors' conditions and remove the barricade paving the way to march up to the Bentinck St. crossing and from there the delegation of doctors went to the chamber of the Commissioner Goyal to tell him about

their entire demands, asked questions and handed him the deputation and an artificial miniature model of backbone. The commissioner accepted the deputation. The junior doctors’ five demands were:

1. The identification and punishment of all those involved in the murder and rape of the lady doctor. The motive must be brought to the limelight.
2. The health department of West Bengal government must suspend Sandip Ghosh who remained the principal of the R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital even after the murder and rape incident came to the public view.
3. Security of all the healthcare workers.
4. End of the bullying cultures in the medical colleges.
5. Resignation of the Police Commissioner Goyal.

"We are wondering why the state health department has yet to suspend Ghosh," asked a junior doctor while cheering the arrest of Sandip Ghosh. Arnab Mukherjee, a post doctoral trainee said, "We will go back if the police commissioner resigns on his own."

CBI Produces Sandip Ghosh and Three Of His Accomplices In Court

CBI produces Sandip Ghosh and three of his accomplices, Afsar Ali, Biplab Singh and Suman Hazra in court on 3 September and proclaimed these four were parts of a great nexus. " The four persons including Ghosh are part of a great nexus involved in multiple illegal financial transactions. This nexus was involved in granting favours for money in R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital," told Ram Babu Kanojia, CBI lawyer in a special court in Alipore. Four more people in this connection were supposed to be arrested soon. " Illegal firms had been formed, so undue advantages and favours could be granted. The area of offence is much bigger and four more persons can be arrested."

Biplab Singh and Suman Hazra used to supply medicines and other medical instruments at inflated rates to the hospital. All four were charged with cheating, forging documents, fraudulent use of original documents and criminal conspiracies. All of them have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act. " These people have been booked under specific sections of law. There is a great possibility that additional charges will be slapped against them during the investigation. " Lawyer Kanojia said in a jam packed courtroom. " Custodial interrogation of the four accused is needed to collect physical evidence. We want to confront the four accused with each other during questioning." CBI had sought for 10 days custody of the four arrested, but the court granted 8 days custody.

Ghosh was escorted to the court from CBI's Nizam Palace office in tight security while Afsar, Biplab and Suman followed him wearing masks. A section of lawyer shouted slogans against him and hurled abusive languages against him. The lawyers demanded the removal of the three persons ' masks.

"Afsar Ali, who is he ?" asked a special CBI judge to Kanojia. " Is he a health department official ? Why is he here ?" In reply Kanojia said, Afsar was an additional security guard of the ex- principal Sandip Ghosh at the R. G. Kar hospital by the health department. "Afsar won a contract and run a canteen at Medical College at R. G. Kar apart from working as additional security guard. He is a part of this nexus," said Kanojia. CBI sources said, Afsar, Suman and Biplab's names have been mentioned in the FIR lodged at the Tala police station by Debal Kumar Ghosh a special health secretary of the health department on August 19.

Previously these three names had been mentioned in the complaint filed by Akhtar Ali, former deputy superintendent of R. G. Kar hospital. After hearing Ali's petition the high court asked CBI to investigate into these other financial irregularities also apart from the case of rape and muder. ".... there was serious nepotism in selecting the vendors. Only three vendors named Afsar Ali, Biplab Singh and Suman Hazra were getting the orders," wrote Akhtar Ali in his complaint to the State Vigilance Commission in July 2023.

According to the CBI sources, Ghosh used to let out government properties like food stalls, canteens and toilets in R. G. Kar hospital compound without floating any official tender and securing any permission from the hospital authority. He had also been accused of charges for splitting work orders and keeping the worth of each order under Rs. 1 lakh and avoiding e- tenders.

In a video, caught public attention Afsar Ali was heared and seen boasting of his August company with a "didi" in front of the then interim principal of R. G. Kar hospital Manas Bandopadhyay. When asked about the identity of that "didi" by principal Bandopadhyay, Afsar mentioned "CM didi " of West Bengal. Other higher officials present at that office then queried about Afsar's designation and job profile. " You call didi. Does anyone have Didi's number ? " Afsar was heard saying on the video. He used to run a cafe on the campus which people alleged was a favour from Sandip Ghosh.

Health Department Suspends Sandip Ghosh

In a notice of state health department it had been notified " In view of the ongoing criminal investigation against Prof. Dr. Sandip Ghosh, Ex Principal, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata , Prof. Dr. Sandip Ghosh is placed under suspension under Rule 7(1C) of West Bengal Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rule, 1971, with immediate effect, stated notice issued by the health department on 3rd September, 2024. Previously CBI had arrested Ghosh on whose watch the rape and murder had happened. " Ghosh had been suspended because of his arrest and the ongoing criminal investigation against him," a health department official said.

An Indication Towards A Ruling Party Leader

In a viral video the parents of the raped and murdered lady doctor revealed, four months before the killing of their daughter, a motorcycle rider had hit her willfully. She was badly injured in that attack. When her parents asked her why she didn't take notice of motorcycle's number and lodge a formal complaint, the lady doctor said that would be far more detrimental for her. Because she already knew that the motorcycle rider was an influential TMC leader who also owned a wood warehouse.

From the very beginning of this massacre on 9 August it had become an open secret that the state government, R. G. Kar hospital authority and Kolkata Police had been trying to cover a highly influential TMC leader who was personally involved in that gruesome rape and murder of the lady doctor.

Police Pressure On The Parents To Cremate Their Daughter In A Hurry

The father of the lady doctor said on 4 September that Kolkata Police had pushed them hard to agree on cremating their daughter quickly against their wish on the night of 9 August. " We wanted to keep her body. But there was so much pressure on us. We were sitting in front of the Tala Police station for an hour. And almost 500- 400 police personnel surrounded us and created such a situation that we were almost forced to return home," the father said. " When we returned home, we saw that 300-400 police men barricaded our home The circumstances were such that we were left with nothing more to do . We were forced to cremate our daughter's body. The family source said the family members were "pushed aside and the body was taken away."

The lady doctor's father said they didn't have to pay the cremation charge. " Who did that ? We don't know that till today. She must have thought even in death her father could not spend that little amount for her. How heart breaking that day was for me," he lamented. The father also complained in a shocking revelation that the DC North of Kolkata Police had "offered money" to them in those moments of mourning, when they had just returned from the hospital. " DC North entered our house and offered us money. We told him what we had to. DC central Indira Mukherjee is continuously holding press meetings and telling lies. What is the reason for that ?" Later a relative of the parents told the police had tried to make them sign on a blank paper. " The police said that we would get busy and so we should sign a white paper. We refused." The relative said.

The father of the lady doctor also questioned the delay in autopsy, " The post mortem should have been done by 4 pm but it started after 6 pm. Why ? I lodged an FIR at Tala Police station between 6:30 pm and 7 pm but it was registered after 11:45 pm, we learnt later. So many doctors were present but the police made an unnatural death case . Neither the hospital nor the police lodged an FIR," he said. " Who will answer my question? The police, the administration , Swasthya Bhavan or the hospital authority," the father questioned.

The father requested to the common people to come up with whatever evidence they could gather related to the ghastly crime committed to her daughter. Also he requested the entire student community. " I would request everyone that till the day I don't get justice for my daughter , till that day they should be beside me and continue this movement," the mother urged.

"Let There Be Light, Let There Be Justice."

In The Darkness Of Grief, People Demand The Light Of Justice.

On the night of 4 September the anguished city addressing the second installment of Reclaim The Night vigil, demanded the verdict of the murder and rape of the lady doctor of R. G. Kar hospital. The entire state of West Bengal had spent almost a sleepless night venting out their visceral anger, frustration, agony, anguish through thought - provoking artistic expressions. At 9 pm all the lights at houses, shops and even in health establishments were turned out till 10 pm and people everywhere came out and lit up candles. They shouted slogans, sang songs in groups and lined up processions.

More Investigation Tests Follow

Tests had been done to determine DNA strains in the samples collected from the victim's body, the accused and the crime scene.

Forensic analysis of the deceased's clothes had been done to determine whether there were one or more people behind the crime.

Histopathological tests were also carried out on the victim's organs to know whether she was under the influence of any drug or poison.

According to CBI the test results until now had shown the involvement of only one person in the crime. Although the agency was on wait for more test results to come.

CBI Zoom On Change Of Crime Scene

CBI officers were closing on a possible change in the epicenter of the crime . According to them had their suspicion came true then the involvement of more than one person in the murder and rape scene would be proven. Officers had already visited the crime scene at least 5 times out of which 3D mapping had been done on three occasions. All the evidences could not assure the officers beyond the limits of doubt that the crimes had been committed in that seminar room and not any other place.

On the next hearing, on 9 September the CBI would be handing over a letter to the supreme court clearly stating that there was an urgency and on purpose the seminar room and doctors' sleepers room adjacent bathroom was demolished. And that purpose was solved on the part of none other than the then principal Sandip Ghosh and all of accomplices, directly involved in that rape and murder. Ghosh's letter to the PWD, the executing body of the demolition work clearly stated, ".... there are deficiency of on duty Doctors ' Room and separate attached toilets in various departments of RGKMCAH, Kolkata."

"You are hereby requested to do the needful immediately as per demands of Resident Doctors of RGKMCAH .... Please do the needful immediately."

The letter also stated, " The issue (of renovation and construction of on duty doctors' rooms and toilets ) is already discussed and resolved in the meeting" with the principal secretary in the health department and the director of medical education on August 10 "at the boardroom of the platinum jubilee building" of RG Kar. According to the investigating officers it was "not quite clear why the process began from the third floor of the Emergency Building."

Surprisingly senior officers at the health department had said they didn't give any instructions to start renovation work from the third floor ! According to the State Health Secretary N. S. Nigam, " On August 10, the junior doctors at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital had complained about lack of certain facilities including on - duty doctors' rooms and attached toilets .... It was immediately decided that necessary funds would be released for repair and renovation of the on duty doctors' rooms and toilets. Nothing more. No instructions about where to start the work from were issued. " A CBI officer told " Our report is likely to mention the basic takeaways of the investigation and include some questions that remain unanswered including the actual scene of the crime and it's sanctity. Our report won't be as detailed as the case diary. It will seek time from the apex court to probe more about the crime and identity the perpetrators. The CBI would submit the list of the doctors, security guards, police and a section of hospital staffs. The police personnel of the SIT who were investigating the lady doctor's rape and murder case for the first four days were all questioned. Also Sanjay Rai's colleagues who were present on the night of 9 August were questioned.

CBI Visits R. G. Kar For Graft Cases

CBI officers had visited the R. G. Kar Medical College on 5 September to enquire about the several graft cases that the erstwhile principal of the college Sandip Ghosh was arrested in connection with. They took photos, visited departments, made videos and spoke to the several officials. The objective was to verify the information Ghosh had given during his interrogation on financial irregularities. The financial transactions were made under different heads, as it turned out. " We are trying to find out the procedures before and after the tenders were floated for civil work and other projects at the medical college during Ghosh's tenure as principal," said a senior officer.

On 3 September CBI had confirmed that Sandip Ghosh and his three arrested accomplices were part of a " great nexus " involved in " illegal financial transactions."

Investigation Reveals Startling Facts On Renovation Order At Crime Scene

Three post graduate trainee doctors from the chest medicine department had signed on the resolution that mentioned the demolition and renovation work would be started from the third floor of the Emergency Building. The demolition, started on 12 August that were later sighted as an attempt to erase the evidences of the horrible rape and murder was stopped by few doctors demanding justice against the crime in a cease work in front of R. G. Kar hospital. They later said they were completely unaware of the resolution order about beginning the renovation work from the third floor of the chest medicine department.

Few colleagues of the slain lady doctor were among the doctors in whose presence two inspection of the chest medicine department were carried out on 10 and 12 August, according to the CBI sources. The final resolution was drawn up on 12 August. Within next few hours the demolition started from the sleep study room where the chest medicine doctors would rest and study and proceeded to the adjoining bathroom of the seminar room.

CBI had acquired a document on which the points of that resolution had been mentioned. The document had signatures of a post graduate trainee from the first, second and third year along with the staff nurse and sister - in - charge of the Chest Medicine department. Arunava Dutta Chowdhury, the former head of the chest medicine department and the executive engineer of the PWD Department had also signed on that document. One point mentioned on that document were : the sleep study room of the department will be " changed as sister dress change and rest room with attached toilet newly constructed."

One of the junior doctors said that during the discussions the authority told them the chest medicine department would be given preference. "We submitted a plan for the repair and renovation work at the chest medicine department. But we didn't know how the work would be finally executed, " said on junior doctor who had signed the resolution. Another junior doctor from another department at R. G. Kar said when they asked PWD about the date on which their renovation work would begin, the PWD didn't specify the date. "We asked them when the renovation work would start. They did not say anything. It is also true that we did not insist they inform us before starting any renovation work in the chest medicine department," said the junior doctor. " The demand was that the High Dependency Unit be converted into a duty room. We knew patients had been shifted from the HDU, but the renovation did not start there. Instead the renovation started from the sleep room and a toilet which were across the corridor from the seminar room where the doctor's body was found . This raised the suspicion about the evidence tampering," said the junior doctor.

CBI had already questioned the junior doctors who had signed on the resolution. " We have already spoken to some of the post graduate trainees who were present when the final resolution was drawn up and who had signed the document," said a CBI officer refusing to divulge any further details. Immediately after a meeting with Sandip Ghosh, senior health department officials and doctor representatives in 10 August some PGTs from the chest medicine department and others department had inspected the chest medicine department for the first time.

On The Eve Of Supreme Court Hearing, Downpour Of Public Rage And Tears Flood The City Roads

On 8 September, the day before next Supreme Court hearing the streets and roads of Kolkata got flooded with the outpouring of citizens ' anger, sorrows through rallies, sit-ins. People across ages cried their heart out in slogans, songs and speeches demanding the justice for their beloved sister or daughter, the slain lady doctor at R. G. Kar hospital. The metro witnessed ground breaking ways of raising one's voice when the idol artisans of Kumartuli hit the road with clay and fiber models and installations in innovative depictions of raising their voices. "Kumartuli dichhe daak / amar Durga bichar pak", (Kaumartuli is crying out / for the justice of our daughter Durga) constituted the essence of their protest march.

In the evening , Rashbihari crossing, a popular busy four point in South Kolkata became a celebration of human spirit with thousands and thousands of people forming a great human chain with flaming torches and cellphone torch lights, shouting one unanimous message to the concerned state departments that this protest would not end until the lady doctor received her full justice. Her parents came to Rashbehari crossing and addressed the crowd, "We are hopeful of getting justice from Supreme Court. The hospital, police and the administration have not been helpful at all. They have tried to tamper with evidence. The augean stables of the health department have to be demolished,"the victim's mother told the gathering," My daughter dreamt of becoming a doctor. Fulfilling that dream cost her, her life. She was subjected to the ultimate torment. But seeing so many people gives us hope. Please continue the protest till justice is served. Do not let your guard down."

Near about fifty school of South Kolkata marched in a great rally of their ex students from Gariahat crossing, one of the most popular places in Kolkata to Rashbehari crossing. " The Supreme Court will hear the case on Monday. We want to tell the court, the CBI, the police and other agencies that we are watching. We will not rest until we secure justice," said a former student of a very reputed high school.

Doctors from different medical colleges and hospitals arranged rallies and formed human chains demanding justice responding to a global call for a global human chain. The traffic was being impeded throughout the day. But strangely the boarders at the vehicles kept on showing constant solidarity with the protesting mass by waving their hands and shouted slogans. Late in the evening, several rallies hit the roads of North Kolkata and it's suburbs. But the picture that got sculpted on the city's collective psyche was the rickshaw pullers of the entire north Kolkata came out in a protest rally riding in lined up procession with posters hanging in front of their vehicles asking justice for the lady doctor, a resident of the northern suburb of Kolkata.

Artist's in some gatherings had expressed their renegade spirits through paintings and sculptures. Various street plays had expressed the true caustic spirit of public anger. Music bands and solo singers had raised their voices through their renditions of the series of incidents of the lady doctor's gruesome rape and murder.

People Stayed Put On Roads In Another Night Vigil

On the same day the city witnessed the third edition of the Reclaim The Night movement all over the state of West Bengal. The striking features of the movement had been the vibrant, spirited participations of the septuagenarians and even octogenarians in different corners of the town. Some people turned up with the family deity in the hope that the lord God would deliver the justice to the brutally slain lady doctor. Countless young painters embellished the main bus roads with graffiti throughout the night. That was something the city of Kolkata had witnessed for the first time. In Jadavpur at South Kolkata, a woman shouted, "Pratibader ektai swar," (one voice of the protest) and thousands and thousands of people replied to her call, "justice for R. G. Kar."

Doctors And Officials Of R. G. Kar Under CBI Scanner

A list had been prepared with names of doctors and officials of R. G. Kar hospital who had been suspected of being involved in flouting tenders and other financial irregularities. "Dr. Sandip Ghosh caused diversions of funds from academic funds for payments with respect to works carried out by his clout of contractors and thereby bypassed the scrutiny of expenditures ....," said a forwarding note by a senior CBI officer to the judge of the special CBI court in Alipore on September 3 . Sources in CBI said the agency was zooming on the persons who were aware of the siphoning of funds, sanctioned for academic purposes under Sandip Ghosh's watch. The tender papers, quotations, award contract letters and other documents seized from Sandip's House indicated Ghosh's involvement in all types of financial irregularities in the hospital.

Supreme Court Queries About Missing Challan From The Autopsy Report

The Supreme Court on 9 September had pointed out a serious lapse in the autopsy report of the lady doctor from which the challan was missing. The challan accompanying the deceased's body was a crucial document that mentioned the details of ornaments and garments found on the body. "The .... third column in the post mortem report.... there is no mention of the challan.... If this document is missing then something is amiss," told J. B. Pardiwala to the counsel for the West Bengal government, Kapil Sibbal. The challan detailed among other things, the cause and manner of death.

According to the Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud of India, “The post mortem team normally will not accept the body without the challan that is why we want to see it. Was the post mortem carried out without the request form at all ?" Sibbal sought for some time to make clarification on the matter from the state government's side.

The lawyers appearing on behalf of the victim's family and solicitor general Tushar Mehta , representative of the CBI, said there was desperate cover up and manipulation of the evidences on West Bengal government's part. Tushar Mehta said as per the doubts about the West Bengal administration' way of handling the case, CBI had sent the samples for further investigation to AIIMS and hospitals outside Bengal. He also mentioned there was not even the time of filing in the autopsy report.

The Chief Justice of India said there was the CCTV footage timing about the entry and exit of the accused in the crime scene. But whether there were any footage of the subsequent entry and exit of other persons . "Please tell us during the course of further investigation .... Let the CBI furnish a fresh status report by next Tuesday. Let us see what happens from now till then. We are not asking what line of investigation they (CBI) have to adopt," said D. Y. Chandrachud.

The solicitor general told the court, in case of rape and murder the first five hours were crucial for evidence collection and nobody had the right to disturb the crime scene during that period. But a counsel appearing for the victim's family said the entire crime scene had been destroyed and several mandatory procedures had been violated. More crucial was that he wasn't sure whether the clothes of the lady doctor were produced before the doctors conducted the autopsy. According to the lawyer the law of preserving the vaginal swab in 4°C temperature had not been followed. The search and seizure of the samples had been completed well before the FIR had been lodged after the delay of fourteen hours.

According to the Kolkata Police, a requisition instead of a challan was issued by them with body of the lady doctor for post mortem and the same was handed over to the head of the forensic department of the R. G. Kar hospital. According to the Kolkata Police this had been the rule or practice in this metro that had been going on since decades. This requisition had the name, age, address of the victim and how and in what kind of condition the victim's body was found, mentioned on it. A special officer also established this action by saying that the requisition acted as substitute for the challan in Kolkata and this was a must that had to be accompanied with the dead body because in the court the investigating officer who issued the requisition for the post mortem, had to verify his action. Here in this case the name of an assistant sub - inspector was mentioned who would identify the victim, the lady doctor. Several practicing lawyers had supported this statements of Kolkata Police saying they had also known this practice of issuing requisition instead of challan in Kolkata for many years and carried out their actions in tandem with the requisition.

Justice Chandrachud had also asked the junior doctors to return to work by 5pm on 10 September and that the state government would not take any disciplinary actions against them.

War Of Moral VS Immoral

The junior doctors were not happy with the Supreme Court's decision. They said the court could have dealt with the matter with more humanism. After a long discussion, they had come up with new demands, the resignation of the state health secretary, the director of medical education and the director of health services. The doctors had also called for a march to Swasthya Bhavan on 10 September asking the government to fulfill these demands. "If the motive behind the crime is not revealed, can anyone say a similar thing will not be repeated after few days? If more than one person is involved in the crime and only one person is arrested, then the rest are still roaming around freely. Then how are we secure ?.... The CISF's presence cannot ensure security," said Dr. Aniket Mahato, an agitating doctor.

Indians Around The Globe Demand For Justice For The Lady Doctor

Indians scattered over in 160 cities of 30 countries had raised their voices demanding justice for the raped and murdered lady doctor. All the demonstrations held at 5 pm, local time in each country. " We started in Tokyo and ended in San Diego, California," said Dipti Jain, a Geriatric medicine specialist in Brighton, UK who was the global co - coordinator of the events. " Word was coming of such protests taking place sporadically , led by the local Bengali community everywhere. Since I had database from earlier events, I thought of reaching out so that a united voice could be raised," said Jain , a graduate from Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital. The Indian community of Botswana and Congo had also joined in the protest. " They had barely an hour or two in hand, yet they agreed to join at 5 pm," said Dr. Jain.

In Guadaljara, Mexico, about 70 people gathered in Parqe Metropolitano. "We chanted slogans, shared our feelings and sang, "Karaar oi louho kapaat, " written by the legendary Bengali poet and freedom fighter Kaji Nazrul Islam. I grew up in what was the safety city in India during the 1980s.... What has happened was unthinkable for so long in Calcutta," said Ipsita Saha, a software engineer.

In Zambia the protest was organised by Lusaka Bengali Community Zambia Foundation. " We have to keep up the pressure globally so that the truth cannot be suppressed. This is the war for the educated middle class to regain their foothold as no government seems to care for them," said Sanjib Chakraborty, an alumnus of South Point High School. "An elderly couple who were the first Bengali settlers in Zambia 54 years ago addressed us. We recited Tagore's " Chitto Jetha Voy Shunno, Uchcho Jetha Shir" ( where the mind is fearless, the head is higher)....," he said adding that protests had held in Dar Es Salam, Lagos, Congo as well. In Zurich, Switzerland Bengali community had staged their protest.

Calcutta Cartoonists Protest

A group of cartoonists from Kolkata had started a facebook page called, Tulikalite Protibad (Brush and Ink protest) to express their anguish about the horrific incident of the lady doctor's death through cartoons.

A Kingpin Suspended Over Presence In The Crime Scene

The Bengal branch of the Indian Medical Association had suspended Sushanta Kumar Roy, an eye surgeon from Jalpaiguri, also the secretary of IMA's Jalpaiguri branch, on 10 September for being present at the crime scene of R. G. Kar hospital in the morning of 9 August, 2024. " He is under the scanner of a central investigating agency as he was present at RGKMCAH after the crime, even though he has no connection with the hospital. Besides when thousands of doctors resorted to protests and took out marches, he didn't join such programmes," a senior IMA member said. " Sushanta Roy intimidated some of the doctors who joined the protests and was supportive of Sandip Ghosh," he said. Inspite of receiving the letter from Dilip Kumar Dutta, the President of IMA, for immediate suspension of all the doctors who were present at the R. G. Kar hospital crime scene on 9 August, the West Bengal Medical Council suspended only Avik Dey and Birupakkho Biswas. But spared Sushanta Roy. In the official suspension letter IMA mentioned Sushanta Roy was the "mentor" of a threat syndicate that he used to run with Avik Dey, Birupakkho Biswas and few others. " The IMA had received reports on certain financial irregularities and the violation of the norms of the IMA. They are all linked to Roy," the IMA member said.

CBI Interrogates Top Cop In Allegation Of Attempt To Bribe The Parents Of The Lady Doctor

The Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police, North division , Abhishek Dutta was questioned by the CBI on 11 September following the allegations of lady doctor's parents that he tried to shut them up by offering them money after the death of the lady doctor in R.G. Kar hospital. This was the first time that CBI had questioned such a high ranking police personnel. R. G. Kar hospital fell within the division of Gupta. The investigating officers didn't want to divulge the entire questionnaire of the interrogation but the primary focus was on the police post's immediate actions after they received the information about the death of the lady doctor. Gupta was also questioned about the vandalism on the night of 14 August in and out of R. G. Kar hospital.

Earlier in the day four junior doctors of the chest medicine department were also interrogated in an attempt to gather the pieces of information about the series of incidents that followed during the daytime of 9 August, the day the lady doctor was murdered. Two members of the forensic team, Molly Biswas and Apurba Banerjee were also questioned by the CBI in order to piece together the series of events that led to the discovery of the lady doctor's dead body and the subsequent realisation by the medical faculty of the hospital that the deceased doctor was brutally tortured, murdered and raped.

A house staff and two post graduate trainee who were present on the night of the lady doctor's murder and rape, were also questioned. The CBI had taken a fresh attempt to get the clear picture by questioning some junior doctors who were present after the news of the lady doctor's murder spread through a whatsapp group of the junior doctors. In the course of their investigation the officers came to know that some junior doctors who went to the seminar room on the third floor in the morning of 9 August were the first to have spotted the lady doctor's dead body. Immediately after a message was posted on the WhatsApp group of the junior doctors, following which other junior doctors had also gathered in the seminar room. A cop from the hospital outpost was questioned regarding exactly at which time the outpost had received the news of the lady doctor's death.

51 doctors and medical students banned on R. G. Kar Campus

Based on a complain list made by resident doctors association 51 doctors, medical students , interns, house staffs and a research scientist had been banned from any kind of access to the R. G Kar campus. According to the complains these group of 51 persons had maintained an air of intimidation throughout the campus of medical college and hospital under the safe umbrella provided by the ex - principal Sandip Ghosh.

Glaring Lapses In The Evidence Collection From Crime Scene

A senior scientific officer, a scientific assistant and two civic volunteers! These were the team members who were designated to collect samples of important tissues, blood, semens from the crime scene ! There were not a crime scene experts ! In the last hearing of Supreme Court on 9 September these facts came in the hands of the bench led by CJI D. Y. Chandrachud.

According to the information on the day of occurrence on 9 September, the officer in charge of the Kolkata Police's mobile forensic unit who also happened to be the Assistant Director of State Forensic Laboratory, was very much present at the state forensic lab at Belgachhia, few kilometres away from R. G. Kar hospital. But he didn't show up to the crime scene. Instead two of his subordinates and two civic volunteers were sent. The Assistant Director named Palash Baran Maity said in self defence " the civic volunteers went to assist only. They didn't have much to do there. Since this massacre of the gruesome torture, subsequent murder and rape of an on - duty lady doctor inside the hospital premises was a case extreme importance, one subordinate of Palash Baran Maity, named Santanu Kumar Saha said," this was a most ordinary case to us." Whereas on the night of hooligans' attack on R. G. Kar a special team of experts that included Debasish Saha, the head of Bidhannagar Forensic Mobile Unit, Chitrakkho Sarkar, the head Howrah Forensic Mobile Unit, Sandeep Ghosh, senior scientific officer and biologist, senior scientific officer Sanat Kumar Saha was deployed at the epicenter. The question arisen, why this kind of a prompt action was not taken on 9 August?

In the Supreme Court holding the forensic report in hand the solicitor general of CBI Tushar Mehta had pointed out some particular section of the report to the judges and said, " the entire body of the victim were inflicted with so much vicious wounds, the body laid almost naked for so long, so many people kept going in and out of that room. And yet in the end this kind of a poorly made forensic report ! Who collected the forensic evidences ?" According to the source, the team of four sent to collect the evidences didn't even turn the blanket from the body of the lady doctor. They merely collected some evidences from around the body and left in a hurry ! As per the mandatory rules of the Indian Nyay Sanhita the videography of the forensic collection was desperately avoided. Instead an ordinary video footage was made from the mobile phone camera of a police personnel present there. And that video was sent with the forensic report ! Following a tremendous pressure from the agitating junior doctors, Palash Baran Maity said, " We don't have a person to video graph these sessions. The police usually execute this part. On that day the concerned person didn't show up at the crime scene."

On 9 August, while leaving R. G Kar, Sanat Kumar Saha had told journalists, it was not their duty to remove the blanket that covered the lady doctor's body. Whereas the forensic experts said the blanket was used to protect the honour of the lady doctor. If the forensic team didn't even take this little trouble of removing the blanket from the body, then how did they collect the samples ? Sanat Kumar also stated on 9 August, there were "cut marks" on the body. The question was how come there was no mention of those "cut marks" on the inquest report ? Was that a desperate attempt to hide the actual "bite marks" by mentioning them as "cut marks" ? On 11 September Sanat Kumar again said," no, no, those were bite marks." He reiterated," we didn't remove the blanket." Was he satisfied with the samples or evidences collected? He answered, " what we could collect, we handed over to the CBI. We gave the full statement regarding this to the CBI. CBI collected the entire information in this regard. I cannot say anything more." Although the present Administrator of the State Forensic Science Laboratory and an officer of the ADG rank, K. Jayaraman later said the forensic experts only assisted the police officers. Nothing more than that. The police actually collected the forensic samples." Another question had been raised, in this kind of rape and murder incident why the forensic team didn't submit any "crime scene report?"

Videos Deleted From The Slain Doctor's Phone

The CBI came to know while examining the mobile phone of the deceased lady doctor that many videos had been deleted from the device. The question remained what were all those videos about ? And who deleted those videos ?

A New Suspect Questioned

The president of R. G. Kar Patient Welfare Committee and West Bengal Medical Council, Sudipta Roy was questioned on 12 September by CBI in his home. On 9 August, according to Sudipta's version he received a call from Sandip Ghosh about the rape and murder of the lady doctor around 10 am. He immediately went to the hospital and stayed there until late afternoon. Sudipta Roy was among those who was seen loitering unlawfully inside the seminar room just beside the dead body of the lady doctor. When asked whether other two suspects Avik Dey and Birupakkho Biswas were also present in that room or not, he said he didn't notice. After receiving the call from Sandip Ghosh, Sudipta Roy called Ashish Pandey, the president of the TMC Chhatra Parishad, R. G. Kar unit. Ashish told him he was at Sealdah at that time. Later Ashish came to the hospital. CBI also searched Sudipta's nursing home following the long time allegations of bringing the various test machineries and equipments of R. G. Kar hospital into his nursing home illegally. Sudipta denied all the allegations. But the open secret doing the round among the people of Kolkata was that Sudipta Roy was one of the culprits involved in the gruesome murder and rape of the lady doctor. Sudipta Roy had all the information about the master plan and the names of the executioners who entered the sleepers room around 3 am on 9 August to torture, murder and rape the lady doctor.

Sanjay Rai's Teeth Specimen Collected And Sent For Test

The bite mark beside one jaw of the deceased lady doctor collected from the video footage had been confirmed as a bite mark after using more accurate techniques. The investigating officers had taken the measurements of Sanjay' teeth and collected specimen of the same. Those had been sent for further tests. The reports would confirm whether that bite mark was Sanjay's deed or not. If not, then another way of investigation would open up following the possibility of other persons' involvement in the rape and torture of the lady doctor. The dental braces found on the lady doctor's body would be sent to the Delhi lab for further tests.

According to a CBI officer, Sanjay till now had not confirmed his guilt in the crime. Due to his close proximity to the police for a long time he had the foreknowledge of the pattern of interrogation. And taking advantage of that he kept on confusing the investigating officers.

There was doubts about the exact quantities of the forensic samples sent for examination and whether those samples were preserved properly or not.

Departmental Investigation Against The Godfather Of Sanjay Rai Lalbazar, the head quarter of Kolkata Police had started an investigation against ASI Anup Dutta, the godfather of Sanjay Rai, one of the prime accused of the R. G. Kar hospital rape and murder case . Anup Dutta had been the patron of Sanjay Rai. In the fourth battalion quarter where Anup Dutta used to live was gifted to Sanjay Rai later by Anup himself. Anup even handed over his service motorcycle with the sticker of Kolkata Police Commissioner on it to Sanjay Rai. Anup was the key person behind Sanjay's uprising all along.

CBI Questioned Forensic Team

Apurba Biswas, Rina Das and Molly Banerjee, the three members of the R. G. Kar forensic team who had conducted the autopsy on the lady doctor were questioned by the CBI in the past days. Because the agency wanted to compare their versions along with the same given by other forensic experts from elsewhere. Till now CBI could not gather enough evidence to confirm the crimes were conducted by more than one person. But they needed to confirm that the injury marks mentioned in the autopsy report were the deed of truly one person or not.

The main focus of the CBI questionnaire was on two points, pre and post dissection findings of the lady doctor's body. The agency wanted to know how all those injuries mentioned in the autopsy report were inflicted on the victim. And which forensic medicines ensured their nature. Also according to the post mortem report the officers also wondered how there were no bone injuries and fractures to the muscles, bones and joints of the victim after having been inflicted with this kind of vicious injury marks as a result of a horrible physical torture.

The CBI officers wanted a clear picture about to what extent the rigor mortis set in when the forensic team saw the body for the first time. The degree of rigor mortis on the body indicated the time the crime was committed at. Rigor Mortis happens to be the stiffening of the deceased’s body muscles that begins after the death.

CBI Inspects The Locations Of CCTV

CBI enquired about all the locations of all the CCTV cameras within the R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital premises because it emerged that Sanjay Rai visited the hospital several times on 7 and 8 August.

On August 8 around 11 pm Sanjay went to the backyard of the hospital building to have alcohol. Around 2:45 am he was again seen entering somewhere near the trauma care unit. Sanjay was involved in a scuffle with a lady doctor some three months ago and he screamed at her. Later on he apologized. But the CBI came to know that on the night of 8 August around midnight before entering the hospital Sanjay had talked to a person over phone . Again after coming out of the hospital he had a talk with someone on the phone. But who were those persons or person he didn't make it clear in the interrogation.

Sanjay Rai was well connected to some members of the Kolkata Police Welfare Committee. And those members were involved in the ruling party. The CBI officers had even talked to those police personnel about the identity of the person Sanjay had talked to twice on the night of 8 August. Another important video footage had been acquired by CBI that had some valuable footage of the early hours of 9 August. The officers had visited the hospital to investigate regarding that video.

CBI looked for the CCTV footage of the chest medicine department and other departments from few days before 9 August. But the hospital authority had informed that the CCTV network didn't cover the entire hospital premises.

The Parents Visit The Hospital

On 13 September CBI officers took the parents of the lady doctor to the seminar room of the chest medicine department and asked them to identify the spot where they were made to wait for three hours on 9 August. With their assistance CBI identified that spot. On that day CBI officers met the officials of the platinum jubilee building and enquired about those persons who were present at the seminar hall on 9 August. The officers tried to determine how many of them were connected to the hospital and also the exact number of the police personnel present in the seminar room.

Through the two hours of investigation CBI officers had asked several questions to the parents in a face to face conversation of the parents with several doctors following the allegations the parents had raised . Later they were taken to the students hostel where in the presence of the present Super and other doctors the officers asked several questions to the parents. At around 7:30 pm some officers accompanied the parents to their home.

Another Suspect Arrested

On 14 September late in the evening CBI had arrested the Officer-in-charge of Tala police station Abhijit Mondal for tampering with the evidence misleading the investigating officers of CBI during the ongoing investigation of the lady doctor at R. G. Kar hospital. On the other hand, the long standing prime suspect in this torture, murder and rape case , Sandip Ghosh was also arrested separately in the evening by CBI. In the financial irregularities at R. G. Kar hospital Sandip Ghosh had already been under CBI custody. On 14 September he was " shown arrested" in the rape and murder case. " The officer - in - charge of the Tala Police station had been arrested for misleading officers while investing the rape and murder case of the junior doctor and tampering with the evidence at the scene of the crime. We will produce him before a CBI court and seek his custody," said a CBI officer.

According to the sources, Tala Police station OC kept on providing confusing answers about why and how all those people including many outsiders were allowed to enter the seminar room on the third floor of the R. G. Kar hospital where the body of the lady doctor was found. There were also no clear explanation on why the OC Abhijit Mondal had filed the FIR at 11: 45 pm on 9 August, since Sandip Ghosh himself had informed him about the incident at 10:10 am on that very day. "The medical college and hospital is under his jurisdiction and as an officer - in - charge he cannot deny his accountability if a crowd of outsiders are found to have gathered at the crime scene," the senior CBI officer told.

On 14 September Abhijit had appeared on eight occasions before the investigating officers at the CGO Complex. Few days ago he was summoned but he evaded showing the excuse of his physical sickness and that he was admitted to a private nursing home. On the 14th Abhijit arrived at CGO Complex at 3:10 pm in civil dress along with two other officers. One who was present on the morning of 9 August at the hospital and another who was in charge of the police station's storeroom. After nearly seven hours of interrogation by a team that included a joint director and a deputy inspector general of police who were specially flown in for this purpose from Delhi, had arrested Abhijit Mondal. He had denied all the charges against him. Kolkata Police also handed over Sanjay Rai to the CBI.

Kolkata Police Under CBI Scanner

CBI had raised their eyebrows at the way of conducting the autopsy report and the manner in which the evidences were collected from the crime scene by the Kolkata Police. Now the investigating officers had expressed serious doubts about the "awkward mistakes" in the case diary, written by the investigating officers of Kolkata Police during the first five days of the investigation. The CBI officers raised questions about those " mysterious " mistakes and asked about them in a thorough questioning session with a high ranking officer of Kolkata Police over a video conference. According to a CBI officer, " the mistakes in the case diary could not have happened under the observation of the Kolkata Police's SIT. There should have been a departmental proceedings against those responsible. The way the case diary has been maintained, it is better to write the diary afresh at this moment." But the most important point that the officers had mentioned was, there could have been a deliberate attempt to cover somebody special in the power rankings of the state government. Otherwise in such an important case like this one, all those amateur mistakes couldn't have occurred.

Commissioner Goyal had claimed that Kolkata Police's investigation was faultless. But the CBI officers questioned, during the first five days under whose patronage the Kolkata Police was carrying his Investigation and in what manner ? According to a senior CBI officer, whether the SIT and Kolkata Police were maintaining any communications with “anybody special” during their entire investigation and whether that “special person” was influencing the investigation in anyway were still not clear to the CBI. From the morning of 9 August till the night of 13 September all the calls the investigating Kolkata Police officers had made were being checked. CBI were also checking whether during that period the officers had used any phones from any other sources and whether they had used their personal phones apart from their official phones. In a surprising turn of the events CBI officers came to know that during that period a highly influential person had called up some high ranking official of Kolkata Police by using a foreign sim card.

According to the investigating sources during their interrogation they had found the officers of Kolkata Police in uneasy state. It had been presumed that they were under pressure from the higher government level. The three doctors related to the post mortem were being questioned time and again. But strangely enough, each time they came up with unsatisfactory responses.

CBI Nails Tala Police Station OC Abhijit Mondal

The Tala Police Station OC Abhijit Mondal had been apprehended on 14 September after seven hours of interrogation at the Saltlake CGO Complex and produced in the Sealdah Court on 15 September alongwith Sandip Ghosh. According to the CBI report the Tala Police Station had filled a GD at 11 pm on 9 August and an FIR few minutes later. Just after that the post mortem report arrived in which it was clearly mentioned that it was purely rape and murder. According to the CBI lawyers a conspiracy between the R. G. Kar hospital authority and some " unknown persons" had furnished wrong information intentionally. The allegations against Abhijit Mondal were :

1. "Being OC PS Tala he failed to ensure the registration of FIR despite having received telephonic information at 10:03 am a written complaint from MSVP ( Medical Superintendent and Vice President) at 2:55 pm and a subsequent complaint from father at 7 30 pm and went on to register a UD (Unnatural Death) case at 11: 30 pm vide GD Entry NO 576 with an inordinate delay of around 14 hours," the CBI'S forwarding note to the judge said. According to the CBI sources, the FIR was lodged 15 minutes after that.
2. The note added, "Being OC PS Tala he failed to ensure registration of the FIR as per provisions of section 173 BNSS (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita) in such type of heinous crime in spite of having known that it was a cognizable crime." According to the section 173 of BNSS, " every information relating to the commission of the cognizable offence .... if given to an officer in charge of a police station orally, shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read over to the informant; and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid shall be signed by the person giving it...."
3. Registration of first GD ( General Diary) Entry NO 542 mentioning the 'body of the pg trainee of R. G. Kar MCH was found lying in an unconscious state at the Seminar Room of Chest Medicine "thereby in conspiracy with the hospital authorities and other unknown persons" intentionally mentioned wrong facts whereas the dead body was already examined by a doctor and the victim dead."
4. "Being OC PS Tala, he failed to cordon off Scene of Crime ( SoC) to preserve and protect the SoC which led to access of unauthorised persons to the SoC causing damage of vital evidence available at SoC thereby trying to protect Sanjay Rai and others who unauthorised access the SoC which might have resulted in tampering with the evidence," the CBI note said.
5. "Being OC PS Tala he failed to ensure timely ascertaining of the conditions of the victim and issuance of death certificate of victim and thereby causing subsequent delay in conducting inquest, Post Mortem etc.,"
6. CBI said after acquiring the call details that several times Abhijit Mondal and Sandip Ghosh talked to each other on 9 August . Sandip first called to Abhijit at 10 am on that day. Abhijit reached the crime scene an hour later at 11 am, according to the CBI lawyers.
7. CBI lawyers claimed, the officer - in - charge Abhijit had initiated the victim's cremation in a "hurried manner" even though the family members "specifically demanded a second autopsy."
8. Abhijit Mondal had failed to videograph the entire crime scene according to the rules.
9. Inspite of having been ascertained that the victim was dead Abhijit had filed a GD mentioning the victim as unconscious.
10. As the investigating officer he was very much aware of his protocols needed to be followed in that kind of a scenario. Still he didn't follow those.

On 15 September the CBI lawyers had claimed at the Sealdah Court that although they were not holding Abhijit as the prime suspect, they were taking him as one of the suspects. The judges allowed CBI to take Abhijit and Sandip in custody until 17 September.

CBI Plans Simultaneous Interrogation Of Sandip And Abhijit Sitting Face To Face

According to CBI, on the fateful day of 9 August after the discovery of the lady doctor's body, there were maximum conversations between Sandip and Abhijit according to their call lists. Till 14 August they had regular conversations between them. Sandip and Abhijit met each other regularly till this time. From 9 to 14 August Abhijit kept on visiting R. G. Kar hospital regularly.

According to the investigating officers on 9 August just after the discovery of the lady doctor's body Abhijit and his men were the first ones from police to reach the crime scene. Within few minutes that place became overcrowded causing destruction and tampering of the important evidences.

On 10 August the State government established a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to take charge of this investigation. After that there had been a long conversation between Sandip and Abhijit that was a point of concern. Even after that Sandip and Abhijit had talked to other high ranking influential people according to their call lists. The questioning of Sandip's office car driver had revealed surprising information that turned away the direction of the Investigation.

According to a CBI officer , four days after the rape and murder the SIT had questioned Sandip Ghosh but didn't check his call list. The entire investigation was carried out in an irresponsible manner. Nothing was checked thoroughly . On 14 September the CBI had questioned a high ranking police officer at Lal Bazar along with the SIT officers. It seemed to CBI that in this situation interrogating Sandip and Abhijit by having them face to face would help unveiling the mystery layer by layer.

Allegations Of Sexual Sadism Against Sandip Ghosh

On 15 September the member of transgender protection cell in Berhampur, Murshidabad district, Kaji Ali Aftab said, during his tenure at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital for four years as the head of the orthopedic department" Sandip Ghosh used to get in touch with the transgender people through Facebook. After inviting them at his quarter he would indulge in relationships with them. There is nothing wrong with this relationships. But our point of objection was with biting, scratching, beating and blood spilling that he used to inflict on those people. Those who visited him once, never went back to him again. "

Sandip Ghosh's Polygraph Test Result Deceptive

Sandip Ghosh's lie test result and a layered voice analysis turned out to be deceptions of a criminal mind. " Ghosh was subjected to layered voice analysis and polygraph test. We have received a report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Delhi, with details of his version was that was deceptive on certain important issues relating to this case," said a CBI official. " Ghosh had also remained evasive on certain unanswered questions and sometimes gave conflicting statements during his interrogations on why he did not try to get an FIR lodged immediately after the discovery of the body," another agency official said.

Just like the lie - detector test, a layered voice analysis also detects whether the subject is lying or not by monitoring signs of stress, anxiety, emotional imbalance and deception. According to CBI sources, Sandip came to know about the discovery of the lady doctor's dead body at 9:58 am on 9 August. But didn't lodge a complain immediately. Much later he lodged a general diary through the then Medical Superintendent and Vice Principal (MSVP) of the hospital.

According to CBI'S allegations, Sandip had contacted Abhijit on 10:03 am on 9 August and got in touch with an advocate at 1:40 pm and finally filed an FIR at 11:45 pm on that day. Sandip's reappointment as the Principal of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital immediately after resigning from R. G. Kar had prompted the Supreme Court to raise the question," When the conduct of the principal is under scrutiny how was the same principal appointed as the principal of another college immediately ?"

Did Sandip Control OC Abhijit Mondal?

In the evening of 15 September while facing the interrogation at the CGO Complex sitting face to face with each other, Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal found them in awkward position when asked about their call lists. The interrogation continued till late night.

In the first half CBI asked them about their actions in cordonning off of the crime scene where the lady doctor's body was discovered and their failures in collecting and collating the evidences. In the second half questions were asked about the failure in the collection of CCTV footage. CBI detectives had asked

for the entire video footage of the surrounding areas of the seminar room adjacent to the chest medicine department during the time frame between the afternoon of 8 August and the night of 9 August . But they were given only 27 minutes footage. The detectives suspected that Sandip had used his influence on Abhijit and used him in the destruction of the valuable footages.

A careful analysis of the call lists of Sandip and his office car driver had revealed that all along Sandip had lied on most occasions. Sandip said that he received the news of the lady doctor's death on 9 August at 10 am. Whereas his driver's statement didn't go well with his statement. The analysis of their call lists and other supporting documents pointed that Sandip was well aware of that rape and murder of the lady doctor, much before that.

It was Sandip Ghosh who asked all those people to be present in the seminar room on 9 August morning having this foreknowledge that all those people's footprints would ultimately destroy the footprints of the actual culprits. In that situation Abhijit Mondal instead of following his duty protocol of protesting against Sandip's misdeeds and warding off the crowd out of the crime scene seminar room, only obeyed Sandip's orders and kept on assisting him in his crimes. Had the local OC or police made a list of those present in the seminar room on 9 August ? Abhijit didn't have any answer on this. On 9 August by the time the forensic team reached the epicenter of the third floor of the Emergency Building, all the forensic evidence was totally destroyed, according to CBI.

New Motive Behind The Lady Doctor's Murder Surfaces

The unofficial commandment - pay the first installment of 15 lakh rupees to secure the permission for submitting the research paper. Then pay the rest amount for passing the examination. And if anyone disagrees with this, he or she will be taken care of!

After three weeks of investigation the CBI officers came up with these revealing facts about a money extortion and bullying racket within R. G. Kar hospital to which the lady doctor had fallen prey. Because she never agreed to pay the money. Following which the racket was disturbing and torturing her mentally for the last one year. During her last day she would often say to his close friends and colleagues that she no longer liked working at R. G. Kar . Thus when the situation became worse she warned them of informing the upper level about their wrongdoings in a written complaint.

In the course of investigation it came out this so called upper level had instructed few selected ones from the hospital to "take care" of this matter. Who were those selected ones? “The upper level” meant exactly which people ? The answers were still missing. But according to a CBI officer, "extremely important information are coming in front. But without gathering the court - approved evidences it is not possible to move to the next level of the investigation. And while collecting those information we are facing impediments because the actual sequence of events that had set in motion on the night of 9 August had been jeopardised intentionally." But out of this chaos few information and videos had surfaced from the phones of few junior doctors who were present at the hospital on that 9 August night. Out of them one doctor even turned out to be the batch mate of the lady doctor from whose call history CBI got that information about money extortion.

What happened on that night of 9 August?

According to the investigation of CBI, the actual massacre took place between the burn unit of the first floor and the general medicine department of the fifth floor. Within this area, the seminar room on the third floor and orthopedic surgery unit on the fifth floor were most important. According to the sources studying the available CCTV footage and analysing the statements of almost three hundred and fifty persons it became clear that on that night the lady doctor was seen moving between these two floors more than once after 12 am onwards. Between third floor and fifth floor four male respiratory care unit technicians were present on night shift. 12 ward sisters were also present. Seven class four staffs were moving to and fro with referral documents of patients, the death certificates, admission tickets . Seven male and female nurses were also on duty. Besides, seven interns, house staffs and post graduate trainees moved up and down between these two floors throughout that night.

According to the sources, in the interrogation one class four staff had claimed that he saw the lady doctor moving up from the ground floor emergency department around 11 pm on 8 August. Another class four staff claimed that he saw Sanjay Rai going towards seminar room around 11 pm on that night. This was also evidenced in the CCTV footage of the third floor. But none of them had seen Sanjay entering the seminar room. Although Sanjay Rai was seen in the lobbies of the fourth and fifth floor on that night. One sister claimed that to go to the seminar room one had to pass through the nursing station . On that night three nurses were present and very much awake in that room during their night shifts. But in the interrogation CBI came to know from them, they hadn't seen that lady doctor to go to the seminar room till 3:30 am. Then the version of the lady doctor having dinner in the seminar room with few colleagues around 2 am and watching Niraj Chopra's Olympic javelin throw on television were falsified ?

A nurse of the fifth floor orthopaedic department had claimed that she saw the lady doctor around 3:30 am on that floor. Few other doctors were also present there. Later she had heard that the lady doctor had fallen sick and she was taken to the seminar room. But she didn't see anybody taking the lady doctor to the seminar room.

A great mystery had surrounded a lift inside the hospital. Generally doctors and health workers used this lift during the day. In the third floor that lift opened in front of the nursing station. After crossing the lobby one had to move through the nursing station in order to go to the seminar room. A nurse claimed, on the night of 9 August at some late hour, owing to some emergency that lift was used to take down a serious patient. A class four staff had also supported this statement. But what was the identity of that patient? No answer was found!

The obvious question popped up how did the lady doctor suddenly fell ill in the orthopedic department ? Was that lift operated to take her down? What happened next? Exactly here the statement of a post graduate doctor had given a new angle to the events. He said beside the seminar room there was another room where polysomnography tests were done. Since this test was conducted after the patient fell asleep, that air conditioned room was also called "Sleep Room". On that fateful night owing to some unknown reason that Sleep Room was locked after 3:30 am ! That room was opened on 10 August while suddenly the adjacent bathroom was being destroyed ! CBI officers were trying their heart out to reach to the actual crime scenario to get hold of the true culprits by using all these clues.

The Bereaved Father Writes To The Chief Justice of India

After finishing altering the crime scene when the Tala PS OC Abhijit Mondal initiated the cremation of their daughter's body, the parents protested time and again and asked to preserve their daughter's body. And then that OC created severe mental pressure on them, complained the victim's parents .

On 16 September at a press meeting the father told " Based on our common senses we doubted the activities of the Tala PS OC from the very beginning. On the 9 August after arriving at R. G. Kar hospital we sensed something fishy was going on. In the GD it was written they had found our daughter in unconscious condition. Then why didn't they treat her medically ? Then why they kept us waiting for three hours without even letting us see our own daughter ?

The unfortunate father apprehended " My daughter was perhaps alive till then. To erase the evidences of their crime, they had killed her later. Here the protector became the predator. When in danger people go to the police. We did that too. But we didn't get any help. CBI had noticed exactly that. And they had made arrests on the basis of evidences. "

The mother of the lady doctor also opened her mouth against the OC Abhijit Mondal. " On the night of 9 August we went from R. G. Kar hospital to the Tala Police Station demanding the preservation of our daughter's body. The OC didn't co-operate. He pressured us more and more on agreeing on the cremation of our daughter. When we were still in Tala Police Station, they had brought the body in front of our house. Two to three hundred police had surrounded our house. What more could we have done on that night ?"

The tearful mother also claimed, " We told from the very beginning that the crime scene was altered. Nothing happened there (seminar room). The entire scene was made up, pre-planned. Police administration, health department and the hospital authority; all were involved in it ( conspiracy). CBI is investigating that. We have our faith on the Supreme Court."

Chief Justice of India Shocked Over CBI's Latest Status Report

On it's last hearing on 17 September, the Chief Justice of India, D. Y. Chandrachud had revealed his horror and disgust at the latest investigation report the CBI had produced. The bench had found the report materials so shocking and disturbing that the same could not be made public. Replying to an advocate's complain that the hashtags of the video footage from the hospital related to the rape and murder of the lady doctor were severely destroyed when Kolkata Police was investigating the case, the Chief Justice Chandrachud said," What the CBI has disclosed in the status report is even worse. We are ourselves disturbed by what we have read."

Kapil Sibbal Plays Stunt

At the beginning the defense advocate Kapil Sibbal tried to stop the live streaming of the hearing procedure by trying to create a public sympathy while saying that the women lawyers in his team were being threatened with rape and acid attack. Also day by day the lapses and faults of the West Bengal government that the Supreme Court were revealing to the public were tarnishing his reputation. Chief Justice Chandrachud rejected his plea immediately by saying those excuses were not acceptable . This was a public hearing, so the people had full right to watch the proceedings.

Then Justice Chandrachud said, "The status report of the CBI shows that disclosing the (details of the investigation) will jeopardise the line of investigation and let me assure you that it is to unearth the absolute truth .... Apart from the (former R. G. Kar ) principal (Sandip Ghosh), the SHO (Tala Police Station OC Abhijit Mondal) is also arrested. So let us wait. We have seen the status report. "

"It is exploring if there is a likelihood of the scene of crime being tampered with, complicity of any other person , evidence, if any, being destroyed , etc. It will be unwise for us to disclose anything further ." Justice Chandrachud had told the lawyers on either side. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on behalf of CBI had supported the bench's point saying any such disclosure of the names would only damage the investigation by making the culprits alert.

The CJI asked Kapil Sibbal whether he and his client the West Bengal government could confirm by asking the Kolkata Police whether they had delivered all the CCTV footage to the government, if the footages were destroyed in many portions or not, was any particular technology used to obstruct the video recordings during certain times or not.

Indira Jaisingh Appears For The Junior Doctors

Senior advocate Indira Jaisingh appearing for the junior doctors said ," We have names of persons who were at the scene of crime who had no business to be there. We can submit the names in sealed cover to the CBI. I am not making it public in the light of concerns aired by this court. " She mentioned further that the persons who the junior doctors believed were involved in the rape and murder of the lady doctor, were still reigning over the hospital and medical college campuses bullying and terrorising the junior doctors. The doctors after all these still didn't feel secured.

Justice Chandrachud’s bench also said the father of the lady doctor had also made some suggestions in a letter that should be paid attention . " We are not making it public . We will say that these are valuable inputs and the CBI should look into this. The CBI is itself handicapped by the five day delay," the bench said. According to the CJI, Supreme Court would pass necessary orders. " Please send a message across that we are not making a detailed comment. Please be assured that CBI has flagged all of this in the status report."

According to the counsel appearing for one of the aggrieved parties pointed out that some evidences were still being suppressed by the Kolkata Police . And the pair of jeans that the lady doctor had worn on 8 August was never collected and sent for post mortem.

The CJI had asked Tushar Mehta to instruct CBI to investigate the alleged tampering with the hashtags of the video footage. The counsel for the senior doctors claimed the rape and murder of the victim was closely related to the financial corruption inside the R. G. Kar hospital. Upon which Justice Chandrachud had asked the CBI to submit the next status report.

Sandip and Abhijit Part Of A Large Conspiracy

A lawyer representing CBI had told at the Sealdah Court on 17 September after producing Sandip and Abhijit, " Despite reaching the medical college and hospital on the morning of August 9 , Sandip Ghosh did not care to visit the seminar room where the junior doctor was found dead. This appears to be a deliberate act. " A team of CBI Investigators had talked to two doctors whose numbers were found on Sanjay 's call list of 9 August, the day the lady doctor was found dead. The investigating officers wanted to know about the details of the conversations between Sanjay and two doctors on 9 August.

Meanwhile Abhijit Mondal was suspended by Kolkata Police following the state government's rule. The West Bengal Medical Council on 19 September had notified in their gazette that the governing body had temporarily cancelled Sandip Ghosh's registration. Few days ago he was show caused by the council. But Sandip couldn't send his reply within the said time.

A Mysterious Figure Appears Behind The Untimely Post Mortem And Hurried Cremation

Revealing facts had come out in the CBI investigation. Tala PS OC Abhijit Mondal and another officer in charge of the investigation were not the deciding figures behind the untimely post mortem and the subsequent quick cremation of the lady doctor on the night of 9 August. Rather they were under tremendous pressure to perform those two particular tasks as quickly as possible from an extremely powerful figure. Abhijit Mondal and that officer in charge of the investigation didn't have the power to take those decisions. They were obeying the orders of that powerful figure. CBI had got this information from Abhijit's mobile phone. CBI officers had also collected some information regarding this matter after talking to Abhijit Mondal and an additional OC of Tala PS. Whether Sandip Ghosh's absence at the R. G. Kar seminar room on 9 August was an order from that mysterious superior he was obeying all along remained a big question. Because from his call records CBI got to know that on 9 August among others Sandip had also talked to a particular unknown person. According to a CBI official, " There is no reason to think that the main influential persons responsible for the torture, rape and murder were all present at the R. G. Kar hospital in the morning of 9 August. The main culprits, the powerful ones all stayed behind the curtain. Who were those people ? How exactly were they involved in that massacre ? And ultimately what they all were trying to conceal, were the main questions."

Common Links Between Sanjay Rai and Sandip Ghosh

After more than 40 days investigation still CBI couldn't gather any solid proof about any kind of direct connection between Sanjay Rai and Sandip Ghosh. What could be known until now that both Sanjay and Sandip only knew about each other from distance. But the interesting thing was, the ruling party - close police officers of Kolkata Police Welfare Committee to whom Sanjay was very close were also very close to Sandip Ghosh. On 9 August, the whole day long Sandip Ghosh had several conversations with these people that his phone's call list and tower location had proven that. Those police officers of Kolkata Police Welfare Committee were present at the R. G. Kar hospital on 9 August from morning till night.

During the interrogation Sanjay had said time and again that he was not involved in that rape and murder and that he was sent to the epicentre seminar room on the night of 8 August. But after interrogating another civic volunteer who was a friend of Sanjay, about his activities from 8 August evening till 9 August night CBI had gathered some contradictory information regarding this. Apart from this , after interrogating the Assistant Sub Inspector of the fourth battalion of Kolkata Police, Anup Dutta, also known as "the Godfather" of Sanjay Rai, CBI had gathered important information. According to the investigating officers "Sandip was being asked about his close relationship with those officers of Kolkata Police Welfare Committee again and again."

The Lady Doctor Complained About Fake Hospital Medicine To The Principal Sandip

The medical scam of the R. G. Kar hospital that had been exposed so far was only the tip of the iceberg in comparison with the state-wide medical scam going on for the last decade. In a shocking revelation, it had come to light that the brave heart lady doctor in spite of being warned by her colleagues to remain silent for her safety, went on to the principal Sandip's office and complained about the worst quality of the hospital drugs. And that the issue needed to be addressed immediately. In response Sandip warned her if she continued speaking about this issue, she would never pass the MD final examination.

That meeting was witnessed by two other high-ranking officials of the R. G. Kar, according to whom for the last few months before the rape and murder, the doctors and nurses from several departments were complaining about patient deaths and deterioration of patients' conditions from the harmful side-effects of the counterfeit medicines. But Sandip did not pay any attention to those complaint letters. Few days before the lady doctor's death, some doctors from the general medicine and plastic surgery departments had complained openly that some patients died only due to these counterfeit medicines. According to a surgeon," We will have to live first. Speaking further about the fake medicines would have cost us our lives. We were threatened this way." Thus the movement was stopped. The surgeon further said, "Even the highest doses of antibiotics administered on patients after surgery were not working. As a result the infections were spreading. Even the medicines to dress the infections turned out to be plain coloured water , the use of which was resulting severe septicemia. Thus even after successful surgeries we had lost many patients. We felt ashamed as doctors." In the pediatric department of the hospital the picture was same. Many children initially after started recovering suddenly relapsed and passed away. In cases of antibiotics, liver drugs, neurotic drugs and paracetamols there had been this rampant malpractices. The slain lady doctor couldn't stay quiet. She vehemently protested against these. And she had to pay with her life.

Sandip's Close Allies Avik Dey and Birupakkho Biswas Questioned

On 21 September the two blue-eyed boys of Sandip Ghosh, Aveek Dey and Birupakkho Biswas were called at the CJI complex and interrogated till late night by the CBI since their names had been coming to the front in the course of this investigation. CBI officers became confirmed that on 9 August Sandip himself had called them and asked to be present at the seminar room at the R. G. Kar hospital. Also Sandip Ghosh being an experienced doctor was involved in entire plan of the murder and tampering and destruction of evidences in a well planned manner since the beginning. Among the doctors present at the seminar room few had confirmed the presence of Aveek and Birupakkho in that room on 9 August. According to the investigation sources few doctors among Sandip's close circle and a team of members from the state medical council were all involved in the total destruction of the evidence of that murder and rape. "On that day apart from the seminar room where else in the hospital premise did Aveek and Birupakkho visit was also asked to them. They were also questioned what were the exact information that Sandip Ghosh had given to them on that day." Their statements were shrouded in confusion. As the two infamous members of the North Bengal lobby Avik and Birupakkho were involved in different punishable offences in several medical colleges.

The Post Mortem Doctor Reveals Shocking Facts

On 22 September CBI questioned Dr. Apurba Biswas under whose supervision the entire post mortem of the lady doctor was conducted . After spending the whole day facing CBI's enquiry, at night just after boarding the car Dr Biswas told the handful of waiting journalists that in the evening of 9 August while in a dilemma about doing an autopsy on the body in that kind of a highly serious case where the deceased person had been subjected to that kind of an extreme level of physical violence, Apurba was threatened by someone claimed to be an uncle of the lady doctor and also a former councillor. The person threatened Dr. Apurba saying the postmortem had got to be completed on that day otherwise there would be a tremendous bloodbath.

CBI had questioned Apurba about doing the autopsy after sunset and the confusion, raised surrounding the autopsy report. According to the information, Apurba being very close to Sandip Ghosh was questioned whether he received any instructions before beginning the autopsy and what kind of communication he had. Apurba had always said that he never went to the seminar room on 9 August, although he was present at the hospital on that day.

On the same day, another new suspect Dr. Sourav Pal from Burdwan Medical College and Hospital was also questioned in relation to being present in the seminar room on 9 August and the glaring negligence in collecting the samples of evidence from the crime scene. Tala PS sub inspector Chinmay Biswas was also questioned on that day since he happened to be in the hospital along with Abhijit Mondal and other police officers. He was also a member of the SIT in relation to the investigation of the lady doctor's death. In the afternoon CBI officers had collected some documents after visiting the administrative department and Sandip's office at the R. G. Kar hospital. At night CBI visited the TMC MLA and the secretary of the Patient Welfare Committee of the R. G. Kar hospital, Sudipta Roy, for an enquiry about some new found documents.

Where was Avik Dey On The Night Of 8 August?

Avik Dey, another prime suspect in this case had also become extremely powerful in the domain of state health administration. But in a latest revelation, it had come out that on the night of 8 August Avik was not in the hostel of his workplace, PG SSKM hospital. Then where was he on that night? The surgery department had informed the hospital administration that starting from 8 August for the next 20 days Avik was absent in the hospital. And he didn't inform anything about this to his head of the department, the surgery department and the hospital authority. Why this secrecy?

An MLA's Suspicious Presence During The Lady Doctor's Cremation

On 23 September CBI had questioned the MLA, Nirmal Ghosh and a former councillor Sanjeeb Mukherjee, also claimed to be the uncle of the lady doctor about their involvement in the rape and murder of the lady doctor. After attending the six hours and thirty minutes long interrogation while leaving the CGO Complex Nirmal said he went to the R. G. Kar hospital on 9 August at 3:30 pm. But he became infuriated when the journalists asked who asked him to go to the hospital and why. He also avoided the question of whether he was present at the Panihati crematorium to attend the lady doctor's cremation or not, "I will not answer which places did I go. This is something not to be discussed in the news media." According to the sources, on 9 August Nirmal had a few discussions with Sandip Ghosh at the R. G. Kar hospital. " The MLA was present in front of the house of the deceased doctor even before the hearse reached at night. He was also there during the cremation and there are allegations that he expedited the process. We want to know his exact role, " an officer said. On that day the opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari laid siege to the Ghola police station and claimed a local MLA and a councilor were instrumental in silencing the parents of the slain lady doctor. The father said, " I asked the corporation representative Somnath Dey and Sanjib Mukhopadhyay to accompany me to the crematorium. I saw the MLA (Nirmal Ghosh) at the hospital ( R. G. Kar hospital). He was also present at the crematorium." The ex-councillor Sanjib Mukhopadhyay said," as a neighbour I signed on the cremation document because the parents were not in the condition to do so."

Post mortem doctor Apurba Biswas had failed to give any satisfactory answer about why he didn't complain about that councillor who had threatened him to conduct the autopsy in the evening of 9 August. On that day from afternoon few political leaders had gathered in the hospital. Twelve members from the deceased lady doctor's family were also present there. According to them forty police personnel had surrounded them all the time there. The cremation of the lady doctor was conducted under the supervision of Ghola police station whose in-charge had provided some information in the interrogation.

After Sunset, In Low Light, Within Minimum Time The Autopsy Done Intentionally

Apart from talking to Dr. Apurba Biswas, the statements of two other doctors of the post mortem department and some domes of the morgue had established, the severe callousness in the post mortem was purely intentional. Inside the morgue, in the gloomy low light and within just one hour and ten minutes the post mortem of such a serious case of vicious torture and murder was done just only to maintain a formality. It was an eyewash. The low - light videography of the entire autopsy was also done in the same careless way where the marks of the wounds were not photographed in distinct way. The use of bright light that was very much needed in the time of videography was deliberately avoided. The videographer could have easily zoom on the body to get the distinct photos of the wounds and torture marks since he was documenting a serious medical procedure. But one look at the videography would make it clear, how carelessly the procedure was handled. That carelessness was pre-planned. The videographer was obeying an order. During his three interrogations, Dr. Apurba Biswas remained almost silent when asked about these negligences.

According to an investigating officer, "On that day (9 August) in total 8 bodies had been dissected in the morgue. Out of which seven autopsy were done well before sunset. Only the lady doctor's body was left to be dissected after sunset! And under three forensic specialists and two domes, the post mortem was completed in the shortest possible time." In general, assisting the performing doctors, the domes also identify or find out wounds and torture marks. After talking to the domes for long hours about the details of wounds, torture signs, dissections of the body and the stitching procedures, many valuable information came to CBI's hands. " After painstakingly scrutinizing the post mortem report mysterious situations that were kept in the dark until now had come to light."

Horrifying Revelations In The Parent's Letter To The CJI Of India

One after another shocking truth had surfaced in the lady doctor's parents ' letter to the CJI of India. On 9 August, they were told that the family members would be allowed inside the morgue at the time of post mortem. And as per their choice, the friends of the deceased would also be allowed inside the morgue during autopsy. A relative had also assured the parents that he had an insider in the hospital who had assured of managing the post mortem in the perfect way. But just before the autopsy began, the parents and other family members were literally thrown out of the post mortem area. The two doctor friends of the deceased lady doctor were also not allowed inside the morgue. The particular relative remained silent, lest the appearance of his insider man of the hospital. And unknown outsiders had entered into the morgue to carry out the autopsy. Now the mother lamented, " then who can we trust? Now we hear that even the judicial magistrate was also taken to another place from the morgue." Whereas the entire autopsy was supposed to be done in his presence.

The parents had always wanted the post mortem to be done at any other medical college like PG SSKM Hospital. But at that hour a group of doctors, medical students and a few relatives had explained to them that it was pointless to make an issue out of it because, according to those relatives they had insiders in the hospital who would take care of the post mortem in the proper way. Interestingly since then, during and after the post mortem those group of people were never seen anywhere. Now the parents suspected those people were sent by Sandip Ghosh's lobby to pacify the parents in order to carry out the rest of the proceedings surreptitiously. The family had also said they became more suspicious about the fowl play after talking to a batch mate of their daughter who said right after the autopsy began, a group of outsiders had entered into the morgue. So much so that after a certain time they had moved the judicial magistrate out of the autopsy room to somewhere else. Then from some unknown source an order came to finish the procedure as quickly as possible. All those time that batch mates were taking photographs of some inflicted wounds of the lady doctor's body. But the outside people became enraged at this and threw him out of the autopsy room.

The obvious question popped up, who were these outsiders? After interrogating many people related to the post mortem what CBI came to know was that on 9 August between 1 -1:30 pm the person Sanjib Mukhopadhyay and around 3 pm, the Panihati MLA Nirmal Ghosh arrived at the R. G. Kar hospital. Under their watchful eyes "many things" happened after that. A group of doctors and medical students loyal to Sandip Ghosh had also joined them in those "things ". And as I mentioned earlier on that Nirmal Ghosh had several discussions with Sandip Ghosh on 9 August over the phone from the hospital premises which Nirmal denied during his interrogation on 23 September.

In another shocking revelation a batch mate of the lady doctor, present at the hospital on 9 August told the CBI, " We were repeatedly discussing about our demands about the inquest and post mortem. It was then that the person claimed to be an "uncle" of the lady doctor got in touch with us and started opening in every aspect of our demands. Later showing his administrative power he took control over the police, present over there. The police also started listening to him. That "uncle" became more active since 3 pm after Panihati MLA Nirmal Ghosh's arrival. The "uncle " started deciding what would be in our eight demands and what would be deleted. "A few medical students complained, around 3:30 pm on 9 August the " uncle " and Nirmal Ghosh had a talk during which Nirmal told the uncle to take care of the reporting to the police station. The uncle took the victim's father to the Tala PS. The uncle himself wrote the complaint letter. Meanwhile, Nirmal took care of the victim's mother left in the morgue. Soon after the post mortem was over the uncle Sanjib Mukhopadhyay and Nirmal Ghosh had sent the body of the lady doctor to her home. They also took her parents to their home too. When asked about all these, Nirmal denied answering and Sanjib denied all the allegations.

CBI Quizzes Apurba Biswas About The Motive Of The Crime

On 24 September CBI during questioning asked the senior most doctor Apurba Biswas present at the post mortem of the lady doctor, why did it seemed to him and his associate doctors that the death was " homicidal" and because of the "effects of manual strangulation associated with smothering." " We want to understand whether the bruises on the victim's body were due to resistance against strangulation and smothering by the accused. The report states the injuries are ante-mortem (before death) in nature and we want certain clarifications on this observation," said an officer.

Post Mortem Doctor hands over 15 Valuable Photos To CBI

From the beginning, the poorly videographed footage of the lady doctor's body taken during the autopsy was creating lot of difficulties for the investigation. CBI even took the help of the forensic experts of Kalyani and Delhi AIMS to identify the wounds properly on the victim's body. Still, the confusions were not cleared because the quality of the low-light videography was so poor. Here at last the post mortem doctor Apurba Biswas came in handy. He had handed over 15 extremely important and valuable photos from his mobile to CBI which CBI thought would be of great help.

In the evening of 9 August, after Apurba had expressed his disapproval over conducting the post mortem of such a serious case after sunset when he received the threat of a bloodbath from Sanjib Mukhopadhyay, he smelt the foul play that was already underway and immediately gave his mobile to a student and asked him to take photos of the different wounds at different places of the lady doctor's body and during the dissection, several internal injuries including the one in the genitalia. Apurba Biswas also photographed the collected forensic samples.

Destruction Of Evidence In Tala Police Station: CBI

CBI had submitted written complain at the Sealdah Court that Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal had destroyed many evidences and documents related to the rape and murder case of the lady doctor and against those real documents, fake ones were created inside the premise of the Tala Police Station. " .... during custodial interrogation of both the accused persons new/additional facts have emerged to the effect that some false records pertaining to the instant case were created/altered at PS Tala, " the CBI's forwarding note to the judge said. After interrogating Sandip and Abhijit these information came into the limelight. " The CCTV footage of Tala police station along with the hard disk and digital video recorder has been sent for forensic examination. The results are expected within few days. We'll interrogate them once the results reach," the CBI lawyer told the court. Even Sandip and Abhijit's mobiles had been confiscated and sent for forensic analysis. On 9 August Sandip and Abhijit had talked to different high level persons. CBI believed after getting the forensic report of the above mentioned articles their investigation would take a new turn.

Inquest And Autopsy Done Under Mysterious Circumstances

The inquest of this kind of a vicious torture, murder and rape was done within just 20 minutes! This along with the one hour and ten minutes long autopsy report, the two most important court-approved evidence were creating the most hindrances in the investigation.

Under the observation of a judicial magistrate, the coroner makes a report of the body that is called an inquest report. Here in the presence of the concerned judicial magistrate the coroner had written in his report that on 9 August he observed the body of the lady doctor from 4:20 to 4:40 pm. That made a timeframe of twenty minutes, whereas an inquest usually takes minimum one hour. Lest this kind of a violent death. The investigating officers expressed great doubts about the legitimacy of that inquest report. According to them the body was not even turned upside down for observation. The observer only observed the body in the missionary posture, in which the body was usually kept. Just an eyewash. The exact locations of the wounds were not mentioned. The places of the wounds on the left leg were avoided. Nothing was correctly mentioned about the wounds on the face. There was bloodshed inside the victim's face and eyes. But the reasons of those bloodshed were not mentioned. Absolutely nothing was mentioned regarding the wounds behind the victim's head and the backside of her body. Nothing was mentioned about the wounds on the belly. No explanation was made about the bloodshed from the genitalia of the victim. The doctor's hair clip was found broken at a distance from her genitalia. But the measurement of the distance was not measured. There were no statements from the two assisting coroners during the inquest on the report. A CBI officer out of sheer disgust said, "In my 26 years career I have never seen this kind of rubbish inquest report." Had this report been made in the correct manner, by today whether the rape and murder was committed by one or more would have become clear. The correct explanations about the wounds would have helped in this detection the most. The responsible judicial magistrate was asked several times to show the reasons behind this kind of negligence in the making of the inquest report. At this point the highly defective inquest report and equally corrupted post mortem report were the main impediments in the progress of the investigation.

The Autopsy Doctor's Several Clandestine Meetings With Sandip Ghosh On The Night Of Post-Mortem

The three autopsy doctors' separate statements have been recorded. The hospital post-mortem report along with these doctors' statements and the forensic samples reports had been sent to the Delhi AIMS for their specialist opinion.

Meanwhile, mystery had been intensifying surrounding the senior autopsy doctor Apurba Biswas's several visits and secret meetings with Sandip Ghosh before and after the post-mortem on 9 August. He spent one hour in Sandip's office chamber before conducting the autopsy. Just after finishing the procedure he again went there and spent half an hour after which he came out and prepared the post-mortem report. After writing the report he again went to Sandip's chamber and stayed there for one and half hour. Why? Was someone pressuring him ? Who was that person?

The viscera samples were left in the morgue for two days after the day of the post mortem. Whereas, as per the rule the samples should have been sent along with the post-mortem report on the same day. The autopsy report was completed on the night of 9 August and the report was uploaded on the portal at 10 pm, the same day. Why did the Kolkata Police leave those viscera samples for two days in the morgue? Finally, Dr. Apurba Biswas alone had forwarded those samples to the police since the seals on the samples bore only his signature. The other two doctors were presumably not present at the morgue at that time.

Even The Dome Was Not Allowed Near The Lady Doctor's Body During post-mortem

In a startling revelation, it had come to the knowledge of the CBI while they were interrogating Apurba Biswas and a particular dome who was part of the post-mortem team on the 9 August, that during the post-mortem of the lady doctor, he was not allowed to come anywhere near the victim's body. Whereas it was the dome's duty to assist the autopsy doctor in locating all the wounds, scratches and any other types of marks on the victim's body. Instead, the dome was ordered to sit at a corner of the autopsy room all along. At the end of the autopsy, it was the assisting dome's duty to stitch all the dissecting parts of the body. Here also the doctors stitched all the dissected portions. Clearly the doctors were hiding the actual torture wounds from the dome all along. So that the information didn't come out. CBI interrogated Apurba Biswas and the dome having them face to face.

Generally in the autopsy report the detailed reports are maintained on the locations of the victim's hands, legs, head, hair, ears, eyes and nails . Answering the questions of the doctors the dome provides detailed information about the wounds and any other marks on each body part and the doctors make written formats. After that, according to those formats, the doctors examine all the wounds and dissect them to understand the nature and reasons of those wounds. This entire process ultimately leads to realise the exact reason and time of the victim's death. Why Dr. Apurba Biswas didn't allow the dome's assistance in that particular autopsy session? The doctor couldn't give any satisfactory answer to this question. From the observation of the body parts to the collection of the forensic samples to the determination of the time and reasons for the death, the entire autopsy session was kept a secret from the dome. According to a CBI officer, " in this kind of a highly serious case the inquest is done in the presence of the judicial magistrate. Here as we heard the judicial magistrate was also removed from the inquest room. That judicial magistrate will be questioned again." Another CBI officer said, "On 9 August several doctors, police personnel and lawyers from Sandip's racket were present at the hospital. Those people were very much instrumental in stopping the second autopsy because they had realised that just after the first autopsy the vital questions would be raised about the actual reasons for the lady doctor's death. Any further post-mortem would have made the scenario much worse for them. So all of them were hell-bent on cremating the body as quickly as possible." Once the suspects in the destruction and tampering with the evidence are proven guilty, they will be subjected to severe punishment.

The investigation proceeds. The mystery surrounding the vicious torture, rape and murder unfolds.

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