Kolkata: The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital doctor’s rape-murder case in Kolkata is becoming increasingly complicated. While only one accused – Sanjay Roy – has been arrested so far in the case, videos of the victim’s parents contradicting claims against the Kolkata Police are making the death of the trainee doctor even more perplexing.
The family members of the deceased medic, who joined the protesting doctors at RG Kar hospital on Wednesday night, accused the Kolkata Police of attempting to suppress the case by hastily cremating the body.
“We wanted to keep the body of our daughter but extraordinary pressure was mounted on us and the body was cremated,” the woman’s father said as he joined doctors protesting at the college.
He also alleged that a senior police officer had taken him aside and offered him money when his daughter’s body was brought home after an autopsy and before cremation.
“I gave him a piece of my mind and refused to take any money,” he said, without specifying why the money was offered.
West Bengal women and child development minister Shashi Panja, at a press conference on Thursday, said that the government would not conduct a “postmortem” of the parents’ comments.
“We respect what the family is saying, they have lost their daughter,” she said at a media briefing where she also urged the federal police, who took over the probe last month, to conclude the investigation quickly and “reveal the truth”.
BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya also posted the video clip of the victim’s parents who spoke the news channel.
“TMC hacks are circulating a video of the deceased RG Kar doctor’s family and claiming that WB Police didn’t offer any money to them. Now listen to the parent’s version. They claim that Mamata Banerjee’s police threatened to derail the investigation, if they didn’t come on camera and deny the allegations of being offered money, to withdraw the case. Distraught parents complied,” Amit Malviya wrote on X.
“Later, when the parents realised that the Kolkata Police was doing everything to cover up the crime and were conducting a sham investigation, they decided to speak the truth. The parents, who had just lost a 31 year old daughter, were being hounded by Vineet Goyal and his team of officers on the instructions of Mamata Banerjee,” he added.
Media houses could not independently verify the authenticity of the claim.
