A particular court docket on Sunday granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a three-day custody of Sandip Ghosh, the previous principal of R.G. Kar Medical School & Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, the previous station home officer of Tala Police Station. They have been arrested in reference to the horrific rape and homicide of a junior physician final month. The court docket agreed with the CBI counsel that though Mondal was circuitously concerned within the case, he’s accused of tampering with proof and impeding the preliminary investigation when it was beneath the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom later transferred the case to the CBI. On Sunday, the CBI counsel revealed that investigators discovered essential leads concerning a cellphone name between Ghosh and Mondal on the morning of August 9, coinciding with the invention of the junior physician’s physique within the seminar corridor of R.G. Kar Medical School & Hospital.
The counsel insisted on the need of an in-depth probe into the dialog between Ghosh and Mondal that morning, warranting their custody for additional interrogation. The CBI counsel additionally identified cases of negligent investigation by Kolkata Police in the course of the early levels of the inquiry, noting that the police initially misinformed the sufferer’s dad and mom, labeling the loss of life as a suicide, and have been sluggish to grab objects as proof.
In the end, the decide concurred with the CBI counsel and ordered a three-day CBI remand for Ghosh and Mondal. Mondal was detained by the CBI on Saturday evening after a seven-hour interrogation. Ghosh, beforehand arrested for monetary misconduct on the establishment, is in judicial custody and was additionally implicated within the rape and homicide case.
