Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer with the Kolkata police, is accused by the CBI in a chargesheet issued on Monday of raping and killing a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on August 9.
Junior physicians in West Bengal went on a protracted strike as a result of the incident, which sparked considerable indignation. The CBI was given the case after the accused, Sanjay Roy, a volunteer from the community who was working at the hospital’s police outpost, was taken into custody.
The CBI filed the first chargesheet in the case on Monday, 58 days after the rape-murder. The 45-page document was delivered to the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Court in Sealdah.
Sanjay Roy is facing charges of both murder and rape. The chargesheet makes no reference of a gangrape. The sole person charged with committing the crime is Sanjay Roy. The investigation is still ongoing, though. When the offense was committed, he was intoxicated. The charge file mentions this, according to a CBI source.
The chargesheet made clear, according to sources, that Sanjay Roy is the only person charged with direct involvement in the rape and murder as far as investigations have shown.
The slain doctor’s body was discovered on August 9 inside the R G Kar emergency building’s lecture room, where she had taken a break during her night shift.
Roy was seen on CCTV entering the seminar room on August 9 at around 4 am and departing after around 30 minutes, according to the chargesheet. The doctor’s body had nine internal and sixteen exterior injuries, according to the chargesheet.
The charge sheet also claimed that Roy attempted to deceive detectives while they were questioning him.
Sources claim that Roy’s DNA was also present in the blood and tissue taken from the victim’s nails.
In Presidency Central Jail, where he is being held, Roy was subjected to a polygraph examination and questioned by the CBI while in prison.
In a related case, the CBI detained Abhijit Mondol, the official in command of the Talal police station at the time, and Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College, on September 14 in relation to allegations of evidence tampering and attempts to “hush up” the occurrence.