Even as the BJP and the TMC engaged in a war of words over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, the CBI investigation into the case on Monday picked pace as the agency officials again visited the hospital to inspect the different parts of the hospital and also got permission to conduct a polygraph test on the only arrested accused.
Earlier, a team of the CBI had visited the hospital to record a digital blueprint of the site where the gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor took place.
Earlier in the day, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC questioned the CBI probe saying that the probe agency had not shared a single update on the case ever since it took charge of the case on August 14.
“The RG Kar case was handed over to the CBI on August 14. It has been five days and there has not been a single update from the CBI. Also, the only arrest in the case is the accused nabbed by Kolkata Police. CBI has not even summoned any suspects for questioning in the last five days. Moreover, the central agency has not even tried to counter the numerous rumours being spread on media and social media,” NDTV quoted Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose as saying in a video statement.
Banerjee, who has backed the doctors’ protest in wake of the horrific rape-murder incident, had given a Sunday ultimatum to the CBI to complete probe and hang the culprits.
Meanwhile, the BJP mounted its fiercest attack on the Mamata Banerjee government, saying that the West Bengal chief minister is the destroyer of the rule of law and evidence in the heinous crime and demanded her resignation.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia said, “…We want justice and the chief minister of West Bengal should resign…By her misdeeds, West Bengal CM has destroyed the dignity of a woman, a doctor who was serving society. She is the destroyer of the rule of law and evidence in this heinous crime which is vital to ensure that the accused get the punishment that they deserve…”
The BJP leader slammed Mamata Banerjee for mishandling the case and asked why did she delay the handover of the case to the CBI.
“Why did Mamata Banerjee want Kolkata police to handle the case, and only transferred the investigation to CBI after there was enormous pressure on her to do so. Did the Mamata Banerjee administration need the time to destroy vital evidence? Why was the initial theory of suicide floated to explain victim’s murder?” asked Bhatia.
The alleged rape and murder of the junior doctor in a seminar hall of the state-run hospital has sparked nationwide protests.
The medic’s body with severe injury marks was found inside the seminar hall of the hospital’s chest department on August 9. A civic volunteer was arrested by the Kolkata Police in connection with the case the following day.
On August 13, Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the probe from the Kolkata Police to the CBI, which started its investigation on August 14.
The high court ordered the transfer of the probe to the CBI while hearing petitions, including one moved by the victim’s parents praying for a court-monitored probe.
Observing that the mob violence at the hospital was an absolute failure of the state machinery, the high court on August 16 directed the police and the hospital authorities to file affidavits on the situation there.
The high court had said it was hard to believe that the police intelligence did not have information about the gathering of 7,000 people, when the state’s lawyer told the court that a mob of such a number had assembled at the hospital in the early hours of Thursday.
With inputs from agencies
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Kolkata rape-murder case: CBI team visits RG Kar Hospital again as probe gathers pace
