A particular court docket in Kolkata on Thursday granted permission to the CBI to conduct a polygraph take a look at on former RG Kar Medical Faculty principal Sandip Ghosh and 4 different medical doctors in reference to the alleged rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee on the hospital, in keeping with officers.
The CBI offered Ghosh and the 4 medical doctors, who had been on responsibility on August 9, the day of the incident, earlier than the particular court docket to request authorization for the lie detection take a look at, they stated.
Officers talked about that the polygraph take a look at requires not solely the court docket’s approval but in addition the consent of the people concerned. The particular court docket permitted the CBI’s request. The company has additionally requested to carry out the polygraph take a look at on the principle accused, Sanjay Roy.
Earlier within the day, the CBI alleged within the Supreme Courtroom that there was an try by the native police to cowl up the rape and killing of the postgraduate medic because the crime scene was altered by the point the federal company took over the probe.
The rape and killing of the junior physician in a seminar corridor of the hospital has sparked widespread protests.
The medic’s physique with extreme harm marks was discovered contained in the seminar corridor of the hospital’s chest division within the morning of August 9. A civic volunteer of the Kolkata Police was arrested the next day.
On August 13, the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ordered the switch of the probe from the Kolkata Police to the CBI, which began its investigation on August 14.
With Inputs From PTI
