Judge flags lapses in RG Kar verdict: ‘Kolkata Police treated case in indifferent manner; seems principal wanted to suppress something’

On the constabulary probe, particularly by the section Tala Police Station, the justice said that Sub-Inspector Subrata Chatterjee’s witnesser connection showed that helium had done an amerciable enactment by making an ante-dated introduction successful the General Diary (GD) connected August 9, 2024 — the time the inferior doc was recovered dormant astatine the seminar hallway of the RG Kar hospital. The said GD introduction astir the doctor’s death, supposedly made by the S-I, had a clip stamp of 10.10 am, whereas the constabulary serviceman was not adjacent astatine the constabulary presumption astatine the time, the tribunal said.

“This grounds of 1 S-I is an oculus opener that constabulary stations are treating the cases successful a precise indifferent manner. It is besides shocking that the acrophobic S-I did not hesitate to accidental specified amerciable acts lasting successful the witnesser box. I did not expect specified benignant of grounds from an serviceman successful the fertile of S-I of police. It shows however they person entertained the contented adjacent erstwhile the lawsuit became a delicate one… It was his grounds that helium was instructed to bash truthful (making ante-dated entry), but helium did not notation the names of anyone by whom helium was instructed to bash specified an amerciable act,” the tribunal said.

“It is precise hard to judge that an serviceman successful the fertile of S-I was unaware astir the accusation of specified amerciable acts and earlier the tribunal helium proudly established his amerciable acts again.Being the tribunal of law, I condemn specified acts of S-I Subrata Chatterjee,” the bid read.

Judge Das besides questioned the constabulary for the hold successful filing the ailment by the woman’s parents. “It is not wide to maine wherefore astatine that time, the parents of the unfortunate were not allowed/advised to lodge a ailment and wherefore the constabulary authorization kept the parents of the unfortunate to hold till 6.00 p.m. (August 9, 2024) to lodge the complaint. It is not understandable to maine wherefore the constabulary unit of Tala Police Station (PS) kept everything down a curtain and wherefore specified benignant of amerciable acts were done by the acrophobic serviceman of Tala PS.”

Directing Kolkata Police Commissioner to enactment strictly against specified amerciable and indifferent acts by constabulary officers, the bid said: “As the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata is the highest administrative authorization of Kolkata Police, I deliberation that this benignant of illegal/indifferent acts of the constabulary unit should beryllium tackled by him successful a precise strict mode truthful that nary 1 tin beryllium escaped and I besides deliberation that due grooming beryllium fixed to the officers regarding probe particularly successful the cases wherever it rests upon circumstantial /electronic and technological evidence.”

“On perusal of the evidence, I americium of the presumption that if the officers of Tala PS would instrumentality due inaugural by applying their intellect astatine the precise archetypal time, the substance would not go truthful complicated. I americium atrocious to remark that the officers of Tala PS showed a precise indifferent cognition from the precise inception. The constituent whether the merit of the lawsuit volition endure for the defective investigation, is 1 of the captious issues of this case,” it added.

In his judgment, Judge Das besides noted the lapses connected the portion of the infirmary authorities and the past main Sandip Ghosh, saying the acts of the administrative caput of the RG Kar infirmary “creates a shadiness of doubt, and it seems that they wanted to suppress thing and that determination was dereliction of work connected their part”.

It besides noted that a termination mentation was besides floated. “…is wide that a communicative of committee of termination of the unfortunate was successful the air. The begetter of the unfortunate besides corroborated the information that helium was informed by the RG Kar Hospital authorization that his girl had committed suicide. There is nary uncertainty to see that from the extremity of immoderate authority, efforts were made to amusement the decease arsenic a suicidal 1 truthful that the infirmary authorization would not look immoderate consequences,” Judge Das stated.

Questioning the relation of the past Principal and Medical Superintendent cum Vice-Principal (MSVP), Judge Das wrote successful the judgment: “It is precise overmuch wide that the past Principal and MSVP of RG Kar Hospital were precise overmuch alert connected getting the intimation that the unfortunate was raped and murdered wrong the infirmary premises portion she was connected duty. It is not wide to maine arsenic to wherefore the past main oregon the MSVP did not nonstop immoderate authoritative intimation to the constabulary authorization astir specified an unnatural death… The said enactment of the administrative caput of the acrophobic infirmary creates a shadiness of uncertainty astir the information and it seems that they wanted to suppress thing and that determination was dereliction of work connected their part.”

On Monday, Judge Das sentenced Sanjoy Roy, the sole convict, to beingness imprisonment. Roy, a 35-year-old civic unpaid of Kolkata Police, was convicted nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections of execution and rape. Maintaining that the lawsuit doesn’t conscionable the stringent criteria drawn from established guidelines of erstwhile Supreme Court tribunal judgments for imposing decease penalty, the proceedings tribunal stopped abbreviated of classifying the transgression arsenic “rarest of the rare”.