New Delhi: In its 45-page charge sheet filed before a Sealdah court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has listed 11 pieces of evidence to charge Sanjay Roy as the only accused in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. While the investigation is ongoing and the agency is set to file a supplementary charge sheet, CBI sources said gangrape is “almost” ruled out, considering evidence gathered and analysed so far.
This evidence includes presence of the victim’s blood on his jeans and slippers, semen matching Roy in a urethral swab of the victim, saliva matching him found in the nipple swab of the victim, and the matching of short strands of hair found at the scene of crime.
A bluetooth earphone seized from the scene of the crime paired with Roy’s cell phone. Moreover, CCTV footage of the third floor of the hospital’s emergency wing showing him exiting the building without the earphone has been cited in the charge sheet, parts of which ThePrint has accessed. listing only Sanjay Roy, a former civil volunteer at the hospital as a prime accused of the rape and murder.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and smothered to death at RG Kar hospital between 4 and 4.30 am on 9 August. The Kolkata Police had arrested Roy, then a civil volunteer at the hospital, the following day after scanning CCTV footage and seizing the bluetooth device.
Later, amid nationwide protests over the gruesome crime, the Special Crime Branch of the federal probe agency had taken over the investigation on the Calcutta High Court’s orders.
The CBI then filed a fresh case under sections 64 (rape) and 103 (1) murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on 13 August. Roy was taken into custody by the CBI on 14 August.
The CBI went on to arrest former RG Kar chief Sandip Ghosh, and Abhijit Mondal, who was the Station House Officer (SHO) of Tala police station where the case was first registered. Ghosh and Mondal were arrested as they tried to “hush up the matter” and committed acts amounting to “destruction of evidence”, the charge sheet stated.
Sources in the agency told ThePrint that the two have been “deceptive” during questioning and were “misleading” the investigators.
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‘Involvement of Sanjay Roy clearly established’
A high-level team of experts from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and other top medical institutions had stated that the junior doctor was strangled.
According to the charge sheet, Roy first went to the first floor of the trauma centre building, then to the fourth floor, before finally reaching the third floor which houses the Chest Medicine Department, where the 31-year-old junior doctor was sleeping alone in a seminar hall.
“He reached the third floor of the emergency building (chest medicine department) at 04.03 hrs and entered the seminar room where the victim was sleeping alone. Sanjay Roy committed the crime of rape and murder of the victim and left the third floor at 04.32 hrs,” the CBI stated in the charge sheet.
The agency alleged that Roy was seen entering the trauma centre building at around 3.34 am on 9 August with a bluetooth earphone around his neck, which was missing when he exited the building at around 4.32 am.
“The accused Sanjay Roy is seen in CCTV footage of camera installed at third floor (where SoC [scene of crime] lies) moving towards the SoC at 04.03 hrs on 09.08.2024 while wearing a bluetooth neckband earphone on his neck and exiting at around 04.32 hrs on 09.08.2024 from the third floor without said neckband earphone. It is pertinent to mention here that a bluetooth neckband earphone was seized by local police from the SoC on 09.08.2024,” the charge sheet said.
Additionally, the CBI has cited analysis of Customer Acquisition Form (CAF) and Call Detail Record (CDR) of Roy’s phone number to further corroborate CCTV footage.
“The injuries related to hymen, which were fresh in origin, are clearly indicating that the victim had suffered forceful penetrative sexual assault. It is further corroborated with the report of swab taken from the area around both nipples showing the presence of saliva belonging to Sanjay Roy as confirmed by DNA profiling report,” the charge sheet said.
The agency has also relied on the “blunt force injuries” found on Roy’s body, which, according to the medico-legal case (MLC) report, were caused between 8 and 9 August, the same time frame in which the crime took place. “The injuries found on the body of the accused are blunt force injuries consistent with the marks of resistance/struggle by the victim,” the CBI claimed.
The MLC report also stated that Roy was not “incapable” of performing sexual intercourse at the time of examination.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)