Questions have been raised on the process of collecting samples from the crime scene after the death of the victim of the brutality case with a female doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital. ‘The investigation process has been affected due to the mistakes made during the collection of samples’, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The two forensic experts who were present at the crime scene to collect samples on the day the female doctor’s body was recovered were not authorized for this work and other experts collected samples in their place. Now the CBI is investigating the background of these two experts in detail and they have also been questioned at length.
Irregularities in the forensic process have come to light. According to forensic experts, usually only experts of forensic medicine collect samples from a dead body and these experts are doctors, while samples from the crime scene are collected by forensic researchers, who are not doctors but are trained in science. Expertise is very important in the forensic process, especially in cases like poisoning, murder and rape.
Work of collecting samples was not done properly that day and CBI officials are trying to find out on whose orders these two forensic experts went to the crime scene. CBI has sent a letter in this regard to the officials of the State Forensic Laboratory located in Belgachia and has maintained contact with them, but till now CBI has not received any report from the state forensic laboratory.
CBI alleges that this process is being delayed, and this will be mentioned during the next hearing in the High Court. Recently a video has surfaced, in which a huge crowd is seen in the seminar room of RG Kar Hospital. However, Lalbazar police claim that only 11 feet of the room was open, where people were standing. Former principal Sandeep Ghosh, his close lawyer, RG Kar’s forensic medicine teacher Dr Debashish Som and some other doctors and policemen of the hospital outpost were also present in the seminar room that day.
CBI investigators say, ‘The samples of the killer’s foot and hand prints at the crime scene are very important. The experienced doctors and lawyers present in the seminar room should have known about this and still how did this happen?”
To get the answer to this question, Sandeep Ghosh and Debashish Som have been questioned, but both have tried to avoid giving a clear answer on this matter.
After the video surfaced, many doctors have raised the question whether any deliberate mistake was made in the sample collection process? Were forensic medicine experts giving any advice to hide evidence in this case? A CBI official said, ‘The samples collected from the dead body appear blurred and it seems that an attempt has been made to hide evidence to weaken the case’.
He also claimed that the hospital officials had said that the body was seen after nine in the morning, but in reality the seminar room was crowded since morning that day. Well-known lawyer Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said, ‘One after the other, evidence of hiding evidence is coming to light. Now it seems that finding the dead body is a big deal. If the opportunity was taken advantage of, perhaps the dead body would also have disappeared.” The CBI investigation is ongoing, and more revelations are expected in this case in the coming days.
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