The accused in the rape and murder case in Kolkata will most likely undergo a polygraph test on Tuesday, according to the CBI.
On Tuesday, August 20, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to administer a polygraph test to Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the rape and murder case in Kolkata. Permission to test the accused, a volunteer citizen, who is accused of raping and killing a 31-year-old trainee doctor on August 9 inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, was given to the CBI on Monday.
A local court granted the CBI court permission to administer a polygraph test to the accused, following the agency’s psychoanalysis test. The purpose of the polygraph test is to ascertain the accused’s level of involvement in the case.
Sanjoy Roy is the only person accused because the CBI investigation has not yet turned up any additional information about him or the case. The victim’s parents, meanwhile, have claimed that the rape was committed by a gang and that several hospital staff members were involved.
Kolkata rape-murder case: 10 points
- Sanjoy Roy, the accused, is expected to take a polygraph test on Tuesday, according to the CBI. The accused was subjected to an examination by a group of specialists from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Sunday as part of a psychoanalysis test.
- The accused’s mother-in-law claimed that Sanjoy Roy had a violent past and had beaten his wife. In addition, she claimed Roy physically assaulted her daughter, leading to a miscarriage.
- On Monday, protests against the West Bengal government became more violent as Kolkata Police stepped up their efforts to suppress false information on social media and detained someone for revealing the victim’s identity and threatening Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
- Senior physicians Kunal Sarkar and Subarna Goswami, who had shared information about the incident on social media, marched with hundreds of medical professionals from Calcutta Medical College before meeting with police.
- The opposition parties, the Left Front and the BJP, described the police’s ongoing crackdown on social media users as an effort to quell dissent against the government.
- Nationwide demonstrations against the rape and killing of the junior doctor have not abated as of yet. In Kolkata, the physician walkout is still in effect despite a significant surge in demand for outpatient services due to staffing shortages.
- As junior doctors in West Bengal’s state-run hospitals persisted in their strike, healthcare services remained disrupted.
- On Monday, CBI agents interrogated Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, for the fourth day in a row until late in the evening. He was questioned about why he ordered renovations close to the crime scene and made the victim’s parents wait hours to see the body.
- On Monday night, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose arrived in Delhi amid persistent rumors that he would meet with President Droupadi Murmu and high-ranking government officials to discuss the case.
- In the midst of the ongoing controversy, the Union health ministry has approved a 25% increase in security deployment at all Union government hospitals in order to protect physicians.