Anwesha Dash, Pune
Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the RG Kar rape and murder case of a junior doctor, was in an intoxicated state when he raped and killed the victim says the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A charge sheet was filed after the bureau looked through CCTV footage and call records to trace minute details of the events that took place in the hospital on the day of the crime.
After demands of protestors and alleged negligence on the part of West Bengal police, CBI was working on the case of the rape and murder of a junior doctor in West Bengal’s RG Kar Hospital. The central investigation team, through forensic reports, CCTV footage and call records has been able to form a sequence of events that followed on August 9, the day of the night.
Through the reports CBI has filed a charge sheet which states the main and sole accused of the case, Sanjay Roy, committed the crime. As per sources, the 45 page sheet says that Roy was inebriated when he entered the room where the victim was resting after her night shift. The CCTV footage revealed this, while tissue that matched with the accused was also found from the nails of the victim.
Many protestors as well social media users had stated that the barbarity of the crime was a case of gangrape. But allegedly the charge sheet for now, has ruled out gangrape and stated Sanjay Roy to be a direct perpetrator of the crime. Though probe and further investigation still continues to find out other details or possible accomplices to the rape and murder at RG Kar Hospital. Apart from Roy, the principal of RG Kar Medical College,Sandip Ghosh, and officer in-charge of the specific area’s police station ,Abhijit Mondol, have been arrested for alleged tampering of evidence.
Sources say that Sanjay Roy has been charged with Section 64, Section 66 and 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The first charge is that of rape, the second one is causing death which can incur a punishment of more than twenty years to life imprisonment. While the last charge is punishable by either the death penalty or life imprisonment.