Kolkata:
A video of the Kolkata hospital’s seminar corridor, hours after the invention of the August rape homicide, has raised questions concerning the procedures adopted the Kolkata Police with regards to crime scene preservation. The video, which is being broadly circulated on-line, seems to offer credence to CBI claims that the crime scene has been contaminated. After daylong hypothesis, the police responded, saying that they had cordoned off the related portion of the corridor. The police have additionally assured that correct procedures had been adopted to protect proof and guarantee an intensive investigation.
The video, which isn’t verified by NDTV, apparently reveals a portion of the seminar corridor the place the partially clothed physique of the younger physician was discovered hours earlier than. However as a substitute of being an empty, cordoned-off zone, it was teeming with individuals.
Reviews mentioned a number of individuals near then Principal Sandip Ghosh, together with his lawyer, had been additionally seen within the 43-second clip from August 9. Intermingled with the gang had been police personnel.
Within the night, a police spokesperson mentioned, “A video has gone viral exhibiting the place of prevalence. It is a clarification. The physique discovered within the seminar corridor was in a single portion of the seminar corridor. 40 toes of the room was cordoned off. The video is outdoors the cordoned off space the place relations, docs and the police had been current”.
Cops mentioned your entire seminar corridor is 51 toes x 32 toes, of which 40 toes x 11 toes was cordoned off. Solely the 11-feet portion is proven within the viral video.
“Authorised individuals, together with 10 forensic groups and people who eliminated the physique, had been current on the spot,” sources mentioned.
The BJP’s state Normal Secretary Jagannath Chattopadhyay informed reporters that the presence of so many individuals on the scene of crime can simply compromise proof. He additionally alleged that this might have been achieved intentionally.
“There’s a excessive chance of tampering with proof. Those that are liable for tampering and for the lack of proof are equally responsible and they need to be arrested instantly,” he was quoted as saying by information company IANS.
The video has surfaced greater than every week after the investigation of the case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation following an order by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom. The central company, after its preliminary investigation, had informed the Supreme Courtroom that by the point they took over the case, “every little thing was altered”.
The courtroom too, discovered anomalies and discrepancies within the timeline recorded by the Kolkata Police, elevating severe questions concerning the dealing with of the case.
On August 9, the second-year postgrad had gone to an empty seminar room alone after a 36-hour shift to get some relaxation because the hospital has no on-call room. Her partially clothed physique, bearing a number of accidents, was discovered there the following morning.
The prime suspect is Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer with Kolkata Police who was stationed on the police outpost on the hospital and had entry to all departments. He has been arrested and has undergone a polygraph take a look at.