Calcutta HC to CBI: Set up SIT to probe RG Kar probe lapses & 'hush-up' bid

KOLKATA: The Calcutta precocious court, proceeding a plea filed by the parents of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, connected Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to signifier a three-member special probe team (SIT) wrong 48 hours to probe alleged "lapses" by the authorities constabulary and infirmary authorities during the archetypal probe and the alleged demolition of evidence.The SIT, headed by the CBI's associated manager (eastern zone), has been asked to taxable a elaborate study to the tribunal by June 25."The ongoing probe should absorption connected the lapses identified by CBI successful the study dated March 28, 2025. CBI has indicated specified lapses connected the portion of the constabulary and the infirmary authorities during the investigation, anterior to the probe being handed implicit to CBI," the tribunal observed.The peculiar seat of Justices Shampa Sarkar and Tirthankar Ghosh besides said the cardinal bureau could re-examine the victim's parents and different witnesses.The tribunal is proceeding a petition filed by the parents of the young doctor, who was raped and murdered astatine RG Kar Medical College and Hospital connected Aug 9, 2024. The plea, pending for astir a twelvemonth and 7 months, alleges that Sanjay Roy - the lone idiosyncratic arrested successful the lawsuit - whitethorn not person acted alone. The parents person besides claimed that the seminar hallway wherever the assemblage was recovered was not the existent transgression scene.They further accused CBI investigating serviceman Seema Pahuja of overlooking important evidence.

After directing the enactment of the SIT, however, the seat clarified that it was not commenting connected the "credibility" of the probe conducted by Pahuja, who was contiguous successful court."Let america spot the system. They volition bash it... We are not aggrieved by what she has done," the seat observed.During the hearing, the parents' counsel, Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, alleged attempts to "hush up" the crime, saying: "Why was she murdered? She knew of respective rackets, that is wherefore she was murdered." He besides claimed investigators failed to probe the relation of the transportation idiosyncratic who brought meal for the unfortunate hours earlier the crime.