The corpse of the woman doctor was discovered in a seminar hall of a government hospital in north Kolkata on Friday last. An initial post-mortem suggested that she had been raped before being murdered.
In an overnight dramatic turn in the alleged sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata, the police have nabbed the main accused Sanjay Roy relying on a crucial piece of the physical evidence the accused forgot at the crime scene – a bluetooth headphone.
PGT doctor
The dead body of a female PGT doctor dressed only in brief was recovered from the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital under the government on the following Friday morning. The deceased, a second-year student of the chest medicine department, was on duty at the hospital when she was attacked by her assailant and killed.
Her naked dead body was recovered from a pool of blood, where she was lying on a mattress. The preliminary autopsy also revealed that the woman doctor had been sexually abused and had bleeding from both eyes and mouth.
Right after the occurrence of the incident was informed to the hospital authorities, the Kolkata Police rushed to the scene of the event. Police officers transferred the recorded video from hospital security cameras: using the data obtained, police officers made the list of possible offenders.
Beer bottles, contraceptives, blood stains, a bed sheet, a charger wire and a bluetooth headphone were some of items recovered from the scene, sources said to India Today TV.
Cctv camera
Another man featured in the cctv camera footage as he loomed around the seminar hall where the murder took place – Sanjay Roy was seen fleeing from the hospital at the break of black Friday morning.
A little later the police collected all the suspects and brought them to the hospital for further interrogation. From the details of the interrogation, the officers confiscated the cell phones of all the suspects.
Subsequently during the line up, one of the officials tried matching the seized bluetooth headphone with every suspect’s mobile phone to everybody’s surprise, the phone of Sanjay Roy connected to the device, he was arrested on the spot.
After the police team confronted him, Sanjay burst into tears and he accepted to have committed the crime. Police officers also said that at the stage of questioning, Sanjay gave different testimonies on the matter.
’Now, the efforts are on to identify who else was with him or he had someone else with him,’ a police official said told news agency PTI and that the police might need to carry out some medical check-up on him if required.
Other sources informed India Today TV that Sanjay Roy is a civic police volunteer by profession. A civic police volunteer is posted to help other officers of the lower ranks who are admitted to hospital, assisting them as required.
Junior doctors
The case has elicited a mass anger among the medical professionals in which hundreds of junior doctors across West Bengal’s several hospitals staged sit-in demonstrations and rallies demanding severe action against the accused in the incident.
Trainees including interns, house staff and postgraduate interns protested with sit-ins and processions in the campuses of; RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, National Medical College and Hospital, and Medical College in Kolkata. As was the case with other districts of the state similar protests were carried out.
At the same time, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that the government of the state would appeal for capital punishment of the accused persons. Banerjee also said she has demanded from officials the case should be tried in fast track court.