Former Principal of RG Kar hospital Sandip Ghosh and Tala Police Station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondal were on Sunday produced before a court here on Sunday by the CBI in connection with the rape-murder of a doctor at the medical facility. “We will seek a three-day remand for them in the Sealdah court,” an officer said. The CBI, which is probing the case, had on Saturday evening added charges of tampering with evidence against Ghosh, who is currently in judicial custody, and arrested Mondal. Mondal was arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence, delay in registering the FIR among other charges, the officer said. The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital is under the jurisdiction of Tala Police Station. The police officer was held after he “failed to provide satisfying answers” during questioning by the CBI officers on Saturday.

 

The CBI claimed in the court that Ghosh and Mondal were in touch with each other, and the former issued instructions to the policeman on how to proceed with the rape and murder case. Mondal, the agency said, is an accused in the case. He was informed about the death of the doctor around 10 am on August 9, but the FIR was lodged around 11 pm, the CBI said. Both of them tried to “downplay the incident” as well as “shield” the heinous crime, it said in court. The police should have treated it as a suo motu case at the outset, since it’s a rape and murder incident, the central probe agency said. The CBI had arrested Ghosh on September 2 in a case of financial irregularities at the hospital.A large contingent of security personnel have been deployed outside the Sealdah court, officials said. The body of the postgraduate trainee was recovered in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Three persons have so far been arrested in connection with the rape and murder case. Protesters demonstrate outside CBI office as sleuths take arrested cop for medical examination: Several people demonstrated outside the CBI office here at CGO Complex on Sunday morning when its sleuths were taking Abhijit Mondal, the Tala Police Station officer-in-charge who was arrested in the RG Kar hospital medic’s rape-murder case, for a customary medical examination.

 

The agitators gathered outside the CGO Complex, carrying placards and posters, and shouted slogans demanding justice for the woman doctor and criticising the police for its handling of the investigation before the CBI took over the case. Sleuths of the CBI were seen jostling with the protesters while departing the CGO Complex with Mondal. Mondal has been arrested for allegedly tampering evidence, delay in registering the FIR among other charges, an official said. The body of the postgraduate woman doctor was recovered in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been conducting the probe into the rape and murder of the woman medic, following a Calcutta High Court order. 

 

 

The Supreme Court is slated to continue hearing on Tuesday on the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the State-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last month. A three-judge bench, headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud will consider the fresh status report of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The CBI on Saturday arrested Abhijit Mondal, the former officer-in-charge of the Tala Police Station, under the jurisdiction of which R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital comes, in connection with the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor in the state-run hospital premises.

 

Mondal was in charge of the Tala Police Station when the body of the junior doctor was recovered from the seminar hall within the hospital premises on the morning of August 9. Sandip Ghosh, the former Principal of RG Kar Hospital, who was earlier arrested by the CBI in the case of financial irregularities at the institution, and is currently serving judicial custody, has also been shown as “arrested” in the rape and murder case. In the hearing held last week, the SC told the CBI to file a fresh status report by September 17 and took on record the status report filed by the Central investigating agency in terms of its previous order. “We have now seen the further line of the ongoing investigation. We do not want to comment anything in the open court.

 

We will give you a week’s time to tell us what further leads have emerged in the course of the investigation,” said the Bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. Taking suo moto cognizance of the rape and murder case of the trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital, the Supreme Court had termed the incident “horrific”, which raises the “systemic issue of safety of doctors across the country”. “We are deeply concerned with the fact that there is an absence of safe conditions of work for young doctors across the country, particularly, public hospitals,” it had said. The top court ordered the formation of a National Task Force (NTF) to suggest measures for the security of medical professionals across the country, observing that the safety of doctors is the “highest national concern”. Further, it asked the NTF, set up by the Government on its direction, to give a hearing to diverse medical associations while formulating effective recommendations relating to the safety, working conditions and well-being of doctors and medical professionals.