RG Kar Horror: CBI adds rape-murder charge against Sandip Ghosh; Arrests ex-principal over delay in filing FIR

Kolkata: In a big development, the CBI added rape and murder charge against former RG Kar clinic principal Sandip Ghosh, an agency official said. An on-duty doctor changed into raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Medical institution on August 9.

Ghosh is currently in judicial custody in a corruption case. A policeman changed into also arrested contained within the rape and murder case, the official said.

Court turns down CBI plea for narco test on prime accused

A native court here on Friday turned down CBI’s appeal to conduct a narco analysis test on the prime accused contained within the alleged rape and murder of a health care provider at the RG Kar clinic here, an officer said. The arrested accused, Sanjay Roy, denied to undergo the test, he said.

Roy had originally agreed to take the test but later changed his mind, CBI sources claimed. The central probe agency had appealed to the city-based Sealdah court, in the hunt for permission to conduct the test on Roy.

“The accused did now not agree to undergo the narco analysis test when the judge asked him about it,” the officer said. The CBI changed into planning to conduct the narco test on Roy to cross-check his version contained within the case.

The accused changed into earlier dropped at the Sealdah court, where the judge spoke to him for my part to discover whether he had any objection to the test. Sooner or later of a narco analysis test, the drug – sodium pentothal – is injected into the body of the subject, which takes him to a hypnotic state, and his imagination is neutralised, the CBI officer said.

“Most often, the accused gives the true information,” the officer said.

The CBI has already conducted a polygraph test on Roy contained within the Presidency Correctional Home.

Meanwhile, a CBI team on Thursday went to the RG Kar clinic, where the body of the postgraduate trainee changed into found on August 9, and spoke to several officers along with visiting departments as a element of its investigation. Later contained within the evening, additionally they took the fogeys of the deceased doctor to the state-run clinic.

(With inputs from agencies)