Kolkata:

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has agreed to meet the parents of the woman junior doctor of state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and then murdered within the hospital premises in August this year.

Sources said that after the father of the victim approached the Union Home Minister, he expressed willingness to meet the parents.

“The Home Minister was scheduled to arrive at Kolkata today only amid the forthcoming by-polls for six Assembly constituencies. However, his tour was postponed otherwise a meeting could have been arranged today only. Now there is a possibility that the Home Minister might arrive at the state on Sunday. His meeting with the victim’s parents can be arranged then,” said a state committee member of BJP in West Bengal.

The victim’s father in the letter to the Home Minister said that after the heinous unforeseen incident happened to their daughter they were going through tremendous mental pressure and were feeling helpless.

The victim’s father has maintained that he wants to meet the Union Home Minister “to discuss a few things regarding the situation” and pray for his guidance and help.

Incidentally, his request for a meeting comes just a day after a group of junior doctors withdrew their fast-unto-death agitation in support of their demands following the rape and murder tragedy.

The junior doctors have withdrawn their hunger strike following the requests from the victim’s parents.

The body of the victim was recovered from the seminar hall of RG Kar on the morning of August 9 this year. Kolkata Police started the initial investigation and arrested a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy.

Later the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the charge of the probe following an order of the court. The CBI sleuths later arrested the former and controversial principal of R.G. Kar Sandip Ghosh and the former SHO of Tala Police Station Abhijit Mondal on charges of misleading the investigation and tempering of evidence.

However, in the first chargesheet filed by CBI at a special court in Kolkata earlier this month, Sanjay Roy has been identified as the “sole prime accused” in the rape and murder crime.

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Kolkata:

The CBI today submitted its status report to the Supreme Court on the progress of the investigation into the rape and murder of a woman doctor in state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, and as per sources the agency has found several missing links.

The Supreme Court’s division bench headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud is hearing the matter. This is the second hearing at the CJI’s division bench in the matter and all eyes now are on the proceedings at the division bench.

According to news agency IANS, sources said the first missing link is the substantial gap between the time of the discovery of the body at the seminar hall of the hospital building on the morning of August 9 and that of intimation to the local police station about the tragedy.

Sources reportedly said that the investigating Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials are trying to figure out why the hospital authorities, especially, the former and controversial RG Principal Sandip Ghosh took so much time to inform the police after the discovery of the body. The CBI has been interrogating Dr Ghosh to join the dots since last Friday. The questioning has been going on for marathon 12 to 14 hours almost every day.

On Thursday also, Dr Ghosh appeared for interrogation at the CBI’s Salt Lake office in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This was the seventh consecutive day of his appearance. The CBI has also summoned Dr Ghosh’s driver for interrogation today.

The second missing link is the exact person who first spotted the body of the victim at the seminar hall on the morning of August 9.

Sources reportedly said that even after interrogating several medical and non-medical staff of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, the investigating officials are yet to identify the individual who first spotted the body. Contradictory statements have been given by those being interrogated.

Sources also said that the investigating official believed that once the individual, who spotted the body first is zeroed in, answers for many unanswered queries in the matter will be found.

The body of a woman doctor was found in mysterious circumstances on the hospital premises on August 9. One person has been arrested so far. Protests erupted in the city and later across the country over the case.
 

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