Sources said the CBI minutely scanned CCTV cameras of the hospital and nearby areas. In its chargesheet, it said video footage and call data record analysis show main accused Sanjay Roy’s presence at the scene of the crime
In its chargesheet filed against Sanjay Roy in Kolkata’s RG Kar rape-murder case, the CBI has given a detailed sequence of events, including the movements of the main accused and the victim, in and around the crime.
Roy was arrested on August 10, a day after the trainee doctor’s body was found inside a seminar hall at the medical institution. The Kolkata Police conducted the probe into the case from August 9 13, following which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) stepped in.
According to sources, the central agency said it has minutely scanned the CCTV cameras of the hospital and nearby areas. In its chargesheet, it said CCTV footage and call data record (CDR) analysis show Roy’s presence at the scene of the crime.
Here’s what the CBI found in the footage from the early hours of August 9:
3.42 AM: Sanjay Roy was seen entering from the main gate of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. He parked his bike near the gate
3.48 AM: He was then spotted on the ramp of the emergency ward, entering the building
4.03 AM: Roy was seen on the third-floor corridor near the scene of crime
4.32 AM: He was then seen coming out of the chest ward on the third floor
4.37 AM: The main accused left RG Kar hospital premises on a bike
Here are the victim’s movements before the crime, as per chargesheet:
- Sources told News18 that the CBI chargesheet stated that the trainee doctor was with four colleagues inside the seminar hall on the intervening night of August 8 and 9
- They had ordered a meal through a food aggregator
- A doctor (the victim’s colleague) last saw the victim around 3 am
- The postmortem report has determined the woman doctor’s time of death as being after 4 am.
What are the other details in the chargesheet?
Sources further said when Roy’s medical examination was conducted, “recent injuries on his person were found like on left cheek abrasion in left hand between his left and ring finger abrasion over the back of the left thigh etc”.
The Kolkata Police recovered nine articles from him, mainly his clothes and helmet. The CBI recorded the statements of more than 45 witnesses and subjected at least 10 of them to polygraph tests.
There were seven injuries on the victim’s body, including ligature marks on the neck. Her death was due to manual strangulation associated with smothering.
What about “conspiracy”?
The CBI has also arrested Tala police station officer incharge Abhijit Mondal and former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh in the case. Ghosh is also facing another CBI case pertaining to alleged corruption.
In its remand note to the special court, the CBI said: “Details of each and every phone call exchanged…is required to be verified with the suspected calls to verify their versions with a view to explore the possibility of criminal conspiracy hatched among main accused and co-accused persons, if any.”
What has the CBI said in the chargesheet?
The CBI, in its chargesheet filed before a special court in Kolkata, said civic volunteer Roy committed the crime on August 9 when the victim had gone to sleep in the hospital’s seminar room during a break.
Officials said the agency, however, did not mention the charge of gang rape, indicating that Roy alone committed the crime. The chargesheet was filed after the CBI took over and conducted a detailed interrogation of the main accused, followed by a polygraph test. He, however, refused consent to a narco analysis.
