Sanjoy Roy from Kolkata, accused of rape and murder, is remanded in custody until September 6

The West Bengal Police brought the accused in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case, Sanjoy Roy, to the CBI office at CGO Complex in Kolkata on Wednesday (August 21, 2024). | Image Credit: ANI

The main accused Sanjoy Roy in the rape and murder of a doctor of RG Kar MCH was remanded in judicial custody till September 6 on Friday (23 August 2024).

Mr. Roy, a civil police volunteer, was arrested by the Calcutta police on August 10, a day after the crime.

The CBI has obtained permission from a Kolkata court to conduct a polygraph test of the accused Sanjoy Roy. The application for conducting a polygraph test was filed before the court on Thursday (August 22, 2024).

West Bengal Health Minister NS Nigam on Friday appealed to the junior doctors protesting against the incident to resume their services. Mr Nigam said that health services have been seriously affected due to the suspension of work by the junior doctors.

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The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the CBI to investigate financial irregularities at RG Kar MCH involving former principal Sandip Kumar Ghosh.

The incident has created fear among students and doctors. Postgraduate junior doctors are questioning the security on the hospital premises and complaining that there is no separate room for women doctors who work at night. Junior doctors, members of the hospital's junior doctors' association and supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party have protested against the student's death.

The protesting doctors and students welcomed the court order to deploy the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape and murder of a junior doctor allegedly took place on August 9, following the midnight violence on August 15. A section of the students, however, expressed hope that the Supreme Court would ensure better security measures as the doctors and students were traumatised by the mob violence and had fled fearing for their own safety.