Kolkata, Jun 17 (PTI) As part of its investigation into the rape-murder of an on-duty doctor in the RG Kar hospital two years ago, a CBI team on Wednesday visited a crematorium in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district where the last rites of the woman medic were performed, an official said. The special investigation team of the central agency went to the Panihati burning ghat and spoke to the workers there, he said.
“The CBI team took note of the proceedings at the burning ghat on the night when the deceased doctor was cremated. These will help our investigating officers to tie up loose ends,” the CBI official told PTI.
The CBI sleuths moved around the burning ghat and took details from the register book about the entries made on the night when the deceased was cremated, he said.
“CBI officers noted down the time when the doctor’s body was brought to the burning ghat, how many bodies were there at that moment and when the cremation was completed,” he said.
The rape and murder of the 31-year-old woman doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024, sparked nationwide outrage.
Workers at the crematorium were also asked whether there was “any political pressure on them to hurriedly cremate the doctor’s body”.
The CBI team had also gone to the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday and spoke to doctors, the principal and the staff, as part of its investigation.
The Calcutta High Court had, in May, ordered the setting up of a special investigation team of the CBI to probe the developments from the time the R G Kar Medical College’s trainee doctor had dinner on the ill-fated night of August 9, 2024, to her cremation.
The young medic was raped and murdered in the hospital on the night of August 9, 2024, which caused an uproar in the state as well as among the doctors’ community across the country.
As per the court directive, a report must be submitted to the Calcutta High Court by June 25.
State Health Minister Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee stated that the state government has reopened files related to the RG Kar case.
Last week, Mukherjee held a nearly one-and-a-half-hour meeting with the victim’s parents to understand their concerns regarding the investigation and the alleged shortcomings in handling the case. PTI SCH BDC
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