The Calcutta High Court has asked the state government to produce the case diary of the investigation into the rape and murder of a doctor at R G Kar Hospital, saying that "something is missing" in the manner in which the incident was being probed.
While hearing multiple petitions on the case on Tuesday, the bench presided over by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam questioned why the police had not recorded the statement of former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, who was posted at another medical college soon after his resignation.
"You are such a powerful person you step down today (and) within four hours you are rewarded. We give him an option to file his leave application by 3pm today or we will issue an order," the chief justice said.
"He is virtually the guardian of all the doctors working there. If he does not show any sympathy or empathy, who else will show? He should be kept at home. Your client shouldn't be working anywhere. Let him be at home. He is so powerful a government counsel is representing him," observed the bench.
Students and protesting junior doctors at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, where Ghosh was appointed as principal after resigning from RG Kar, have refused to allow him on the premises.
One of the petitions has demanded that the case be handed over to a central probe agency as there was "little faith" in the state investigating agency, in this case the Calcutta Police’s special investigation team.
A lawyer appearing on behalf of the petitioner demanded before the court the Commissioner of Calcutta Police be sent on compulsory waiting till the probe into the rape and murder of the second year postgraduate trainee at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital is completed.
“He was the Inspector General of Police (CID) when the Kamduni rape and murder case took place. I was the defense counsel in that case and I am aware of what he had done to suppress the evidence,” said Phiroze Edulji, a city-based advocate, who filed the petition on behalf of a social worker.
“He (Goyal) is responsible for botching up of the case, the acquittals happened… heading the investigation, in ten years these people will be acquitted too. Same modus operandi. He needs to go,” said Edulji.
In North 24-Parganas Kamduni, a 20-year old college student was raped and murdered in June 2013.
Advocate and Rajya Sabha MP, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya is scheduled to appear on behalf of the family of the victim.
“The family’s main demand is that there should be a thorough probe into the crime. There are discrepancies and several questions. This cannot be the handiwork of one person,” said Bhattacharya. “I have spoken with the forensic expert and they are also of the opinion that one person could not have carried out the crime.”
Bhattacharya, who will be appearing in court this afternoon, said the chief minister had tried to influence the family but so far they have held their ground.
