The CBI on Monday submitted a standing report in a court docket in Kolkata’s Sealdah within the case of alleged tampering of proof within the rape and homicide of a trainee physician on the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital in August final yr, sustaining that the investigation within the matter was nonetheless on and a supplementary chargesheet can be filed quickly.
Dr Sandip Ghosh, the then principal of RG Kar Medical School, and former Tala police station officer incharge Abhijit Mondal are accused within the case. Each have been granted bail by the court docket within the case in December 2024 after the CBI didn’t submit a chargesheet inside 90 days of submitting the FIR. However Ghosh stays in custody within the RG Kar monetary irregularities case.
The central company on Monday knowledgeable the court docket that the SIM card of Abhijit Mondal couldn’t be returned as but as a result of ongoing probe.
A Kolkata court docket had on January 20 sentenced the rape-murder convict, Sanjay Roy, to life imprisonment.
In the course of the listening to within the Sealdah court docket on Monday, the sufferer’s mother and father alleged that they have been stored in the dead of night by the company relating to the progress of the case.
The counsel representing the sufferer’s mother and father submitted within the court docket that the CBI doesn’t preserve any contact with the household or inform them about additional investigation. The sufferer’s mom broke down in the course of the listening to, saying, “My daughter was on obligation. We wish to know why did this occur to her.”
Rejecting their declare, the CBI counsel submitted, “On this case, investigation continues to be on whether or not there was any tampering of proof or any try at cover-up. The household was by no means stored within the darkness. Seven standing experiences have been submitted within the Supreme Court docket and the household was additionally knowledgeable.”
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The sufferer’s father mentioned within the court docket, “The CBI is conducting the investigation for the previous seven months and the final time they visited us was on November 10 to produce us with a summons copy. The Kolkata Police investigated the matter for the primary 5 days and visited us simply as soon as. On the subject of the CBI probe we have no idea the place the investigation stands.”
He additional alleged that at first, they weren’t even allowed to enter the courtroom in the course of the trial. The household’s counsel submitted, “There was a communication hole however we’re blissful that the CBI immediately submitted a standing report within the matter.”
After listening to the household’s plea, the choose noticed, “I can perceive the ache and concern however don’t really feel that you just (mother and father) have been disregarded of the case. It’s a must to be affected person. No matter has occurred has occurred underneath the directions of the court docket. There was a conviction within the case. The CBI and the Kolkata Police have sure protocols to observe. They’ll actually inform you after a time frame. It isn’t obligatory for the CBI to tell whom all they’re questioning or will query. They aren’t even obliged to tell the main points of the CFSL report or some other report.”
In the meantime, within the Alipore Particular CBI court docket, Dr Sandeep Ghosh and two others filed petitions in search of orders to the CBI to permit them to look at the paperwork submitted by the company. The court docket granted them permission, saying their counsels will probably be given time to confirm the paperwork within the CBI workplace in Kolkata’s Nizam Palace on February 26 and February 27.
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Just lately, a division bench of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket expressed “hope” that the decrease court docket would begin the trial within the case of alleged monetary irregularities at RG Kar Medical School by early March. Dr Sandip Ghosh and 4 others are named as accused within the irregularities case.
The CBI had submitted its chargesheet within the case on November 28, 2024. In January, Ghosh filed a petition within the Excessive Court docket in search of an order to quash the costs framed towards him.
The bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the method of framing of fees be began inside every week. Following the HC order, the Alipore court docket hurriedly issued an order for framing fees. The accused then moved Justice Ghosh’s bench once more for modifications to his earlier order however the choose refused. The accused then moved an attraction earlier than a division bench headed by Justice Bagchi.
