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A team of CISF personnel arrived at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court ordered that central forces be deployed at the site that has been at the centre of massive protests following the gruesome rape and murder of a 31-year-old woman trainee doctor.
Meanwhile, CBI officers may conduct a lie detector test on Dr Sandip Ghosh - the former principal of RG Kar hospital - who resigned after protests across Kolkata over the rape-murder, news agency PTI reported. Ghosh appeared before the probe agency for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, after it took over the investigation into the case last week.
"We want to further verify Ghosh's answers, as there have been discrepancies in some of the replies to our questions. Therefore, we are mulling the option of conducting a polygraph test on him," an official told PTI.
Dr Sandip Ghosh was questioned by CBI officers on Wednesday for the sixth straight day. Several questions, including specifying his role after learning about the news of the doctor's death, who he contacted thereafter and why he made her parents wait for nearly three hours before getting to see the body, have been put forth him.
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday heard a batch of petitions pertaining to the rape-murder case, and listed the matter for the next hearing on September 4. The Chief Justice said that the bench will hear the case after an affidavit on the rape-murder and the vandalism at RG Kar hospital is submitted by the CBI and the Bengal government to the Supreme Court on August 22.
Healthcare services remained crippled across Bengal as doctors continued their protest over the rape-murder case. Services at outpatient departments and non-emergency units were crippled, as long queues of patients were spotted outside ticket counters of state-run hospitals. The Supreme Court on Tuesday had requested protesting doctors across India to call off their strike and resume work.
A former superintendent of RG Kar has claimed that Dr Sandip Ghosh was involved in multiple illegal activities, including the selling of unclaimed bodies. In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, Akhtar Ali also alleged that Ghosh was involved in trafficking biomedical waste and medical supplies to Bangladesh.
The investigation into the rape-murder case has revealed that Sanjoy Roy, the prime accused, visited a red light area in Kolkata after midnight on August 8, sources told India Today TV. He also consumed alcohol, they added. The woman trainee doctor's semi-naked body was discovered inside the seminar hall of RG Kar hospital on August 9 and Roy was arrested a day later.
