The city police summoned more than 100 people till Sunday for allegedly spreading misinformation related to the rape and murder at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officers said.

Close to 1,000 others “have been identified for spreading misinformation” and will be summoned.

Among those summoned are Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and two doctors in the city.

Ray had posted on his X handle asking why a police sniffer dog was taken to RG Kar three days after the crime.

A senior officer of Kolkata Police denied the allegation and said the sniffer dog
was taken to the hospital twice. It was first taken on August 9, the day the doctor’s body was found in the seminar hall of the building housing the emergency
department.

Just after Saturday midnight, Ray had posted on his X handle: “CBI must act fairly. Custodial interrogation of Ex Principal and Police Commissioner is a must to know who and why floated suicide story. Why wall of hall demolished... Why sniffer
dog used after 3 days. 100s of such questions. Make them speak.”

A statement issued by a senior officer of the Kolkata police said: “The information that the sniffer dog was sent after three days is completely wrong. Sniffer dog was sent twice, on 9th (August) and then on 12th (August). A notice under section 35(1) BNS has been sent to Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Ray.”

Ray did not appear before the city police on Sunday, officers said.

Two senior doctors — Subarna Goswami and Kunal Sarkar — were also summoned on Sunday.

Goswami told The Telegraph he received a call from Kolkata Police on Sunday morning and was told that he had been summoned to Lalbazar on Sunday afternoon.

“I told the officer that there was no one at home and that I was not in a position to receive the hard copy of the summons as I was on my way to a place outside Bengal. Then they sent it through WhatsApp,” Goswami said.

Goswami, a central joint secretary of the Association of Health Service Doctors, Bengal, and additional general secretary of the All India Federation of Government Doctors’ Associations, said he changed his plan and returned home on Sunday evening.

“I will consult my lawyer and will certainly respond to the summons accordingly,” Goswami said.

Kunal Sarkar, when contacted by this newspaper on Sunday evening, said he was seeing a patient. An hour later, he did not answer a call from The Telegraph.

The Joint Platform of Doctors, West Bengal, wrote a letter to Kolkata Police commissioner on Sunday registering its protest against police’s alleged “harassment” of the two doctors.

“That Dr Subarna Goswami… spoke on some technically relevant issues related to the said incident based on available information received organizationally from the most reliable source only in the spirit of the organizational unwavering commitment and accountability to try to unleash the truth with proper technical explanation towards ensuring the Justice at the earliest. It is noteworthy here that Dr Goswami had never utilized the power of the official chair he holds to get any essential information in this regard and to portray the same before the public domain. He has not given the media bite from his official position but from the post of organisational office bearer,” the letter said.

As for the summons to Sarkar, the forum said: “Dr Kunal Sarkar has also come up with social and technical responsibility and duties of an empathetic co-citizen of the city in the identical spirit as enumerated above to aid in bringing the truth to the ground.”
Members of the forum said they might hit the streets to protest the summons and accompany the two doctors to Lalbazar on Monday.