RG KAR TRAGEDY: Not a case of gang rape, CBI informs Calcutta HC

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday informed Calcutta High Court that the woman junior doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata was not gang-raped.

The single-judge Bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh was hearing the case concerning the rape and murder of a woman doctor in August last year.

Earlier, on the first day of the fresh hearing at his Bench on March 24, Justice Ghosh had directed the CBI to clarify whether the tragedy was a case of “rape or “gang rape”.

On Friday, the CBI in its clarification to the same Bench ruled out the possibility of “gang rape in the matter.”

Thereafter, the CBI also clarified that the current phase of investigation in the matter was in relation to the angle of evidence tampering and altering when the initial probe in the matter was being carried out by the Kolkata Police. On Friday afternoon, the CBI also submitted a three-page status report to a special court in Kolkata on the progress of the investigation in the matter.

The status report was submitted at the same special court which recently sentenced the sole convict in the case, Sanjay Roy, to life imprisonment.

On Friday, the CBI also submitted the case diary in the matter to the Bench of Justice Ghosh as directed by the latter on the first day of the hearing on March 24.  (IANS)

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