Interns and students at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital knew Sanjay Roy, the accused arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of the postgraduate trainee doctor, as a cook. But then he disappeared from the campus a few years ago.
An intern at RG Kar Medical College Hospital, who did not want to be identified, said Roy had disappeared from the hospital. And he returned to the campus around September last year.
"When he came back he introduced himself as a police volunteer and had easy access to all the wards and rooms in the hospital and college,” the intern told The Telegraph Online. “He often stood as a guard outside the special emergency gate and the trauma ward. From our seniors we heard that he used to work as a cook till some years ago."
The intern was unaware of the reasons why and where Roy, around 35 years old, had disappeared and how he gained employment as a civic volunteer.
Another former student of RG Kar Medical College recalled an incident involving Roy from last year.
“Around November or December I was interning at RG Kar Medical College hospital’s trauma department. I remember one night this man came in a drunken state with some minor abrasions on his left hand,” said Soutaj Biswas, who is now attached with the Calcutta Medical College.
“There were other patients who were in a far more critical condition and needed our immediate attention. This man behaved rudely with the doctors at the trauma unit,” added Biswas.
Another postgraduate trainee, who spoke to The Telegraph Online, said he knew the victim and they were familiar with Roy as a civic volunteer. But they had never seen him behave badly or in a drunken state.
“He was usually on duty at the trauma department gate,” said the trainee who did not wish to be identified.
Roy was arrested on Saturday morning in connection with the murder. He was remanded to 14 days in police custody by the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court at Sealdah later this afternoon. No lawyer appeared on behalf of the accused when he was produced before the magistrate.
The seminar hall where the victim had retired for the night did not have any CCTV footage. But Roy was caught on another camera outside the chest department building. According to sources in the police, when the accused entered the building he was seen with the Bluetooth connected headphones. He came out nearly half an hour later and the headphone was missing.
“He had left the hospital around 11pm and consumed alcohol. Almost five hours later he was seen entering the hospital,” said a police officer.
Roy was picked up for interrogation on Friday night on the basis of a headphone lying by the victim’s semi-clothed body on the floor of the seminar hall.
The city police chief, Vineet Goyal who spoke with the media earlier during the day, avoided a direct reply when asked if the accused had confessed.
“There is strong complicity as far as the accused is concerned. He is a criminal of the highest order,” Goyal said.
Talking to the news channel ABP Ananda on Saturday morning, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had said she was ready for a CBI probe if the family so wanted.
