Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested for the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has told investigators about another civic volunteer with whom he had gone to the hospital on Thursday night, police sources said on Sunday.

Roy is said to have told the police that they had gone to meet an acquaintance of the other volunteer who was admitted at the hospital.

Both volunteers reportedly stayed in the barracks of the fourth battalion of the city police in Salt Lake.

Roy, the police said, was sleeping in the barracks on Friday morning, hours
after the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee was found dead in a seminar hall on the third floor of the building housing the emergency department.

Officers at Lalbazar said Roy, being a civic volunteer, was not entitled to stay in the barracks.

Roy is said to have told the officers questioning him that he had gone to red-light areas twice — in Kalighat and Sovabazar — on Thursday night, hours before he allegedly brutalised the young doctor at RG Kar.

The police said they were verifying his claims.

“Roy was at Salua, near Kharagpur in West Midnapore, from August 5 and returned to Calcutta on Thursday. He said he and another civic volunteer from the fourth battalion had gone to a red-light area in Kalighat on Thursday before they turned up at the hospital to check on the patient, who is an acquaintance of the other civic volunteer. After that, he said he went to another red-light area, in Sovabazar, before visiting RG Kar for a second time that night. We are verifying these details,” said an investigator.

The police said they came to know while tracking Roy’s location that he had indeed visited the hospital twice that night. “He entered the hospital for the first time at 11pm and left around 11.30pm. He went there again around 3.50am and left around 4.30am,” an officer said.

“We will verify his statements about the other civic volunteer,” the officer said.

The investigators have come across a two-year-old complaint against Roy at Kalighat police station, filed by his former wife.

According to Roy’s former mother-in-law Durga Devi, who is a resident of Topsia, he used to assault her daughter when she was three months’ pregnant.

“I lodged a complaint on behalf of my daughter with Kalighat police station on August 4, 2022. I went to pursue the complaint twice but no action was taken against him,” Durga Devi told The Telegraph on Sunday.

Police officers refused to comment on the complaint.

Some officers said that had action been taken against Roy two years ago, the Friday morning incident might not have happened. “But, unfortunately, he enjoyed the blessings of a few top officers of the police welfare board,” said an officer.

On Friday morning, after allegedly committing the offence, Roy returned to the barracks in Salt Lake and dozed off, next to other police personnel.

“When he woke up, he was absolutely normal, witnesses have told us. A few hours later, even when he was being arrested, he showed no sign of remorse. When he finally confessed, he simply said: ‘Aamay phashi diye deen (get me hanged)’,” an investigator said.