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On August 12, junior doctors, trainee doctors and medical students protested against the sexual assault and killing of a postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata.
A CBI team consisting of medical and forensic experts will visit the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital for a seminar where the body of the trainee doctor was found on August 9, they said.
A post-mortem report by Kolkata doctors revealed that the 31-year-old woman had been gang-raped based on the amount of semen found during the autopsy.
According to India Today, Dr. Subarna Goswami said the report confirmed that about 151 milligrams of the fluid was a vaginal swab, an amount that suggested it did not belong to a single person.
A team of senior CBI officials arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday morning to begin probing the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at a government hospital in West Bengal, officials said.
A CBI team comprising medical and forensic experts will visit the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the body of the trainee doctor was found on August 9, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has formed three teams of officials to investigate the matter, a central agency official said.
“One team will visit RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and talk to witnesses and doctors on duty that night. Another team will take the arrested citizen volunteer to the local court after conducting a medical examination and request his detention, While another team will coordinate with the Kolkata Police detectives who are conducting the investigation,” he told PTI.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of the investigation from Kolkata Police to a central agency.
A source in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said the agency has submitted an FIR in connection with the alleged rape and murder of the doctor to various divisions of the BNS in New Delhi.
“Today, our officials will seek the phone details of the deceased and the personnel on duty that day. They are likely to file an FIR before the local court,” another central agency source said.
The Kolkata Police handed over Sanjoy Roy to the CBI at the CGO complex after conducting medical examination at the state-run SSKM Hospital.
Two CBI officers went to Tala police station here on Tuesday night and took away documents related to the Kolkata Police investigation.
The court on Tuesday directed the city police to hand over the case diary to the central investigation agency by evening and all other documents by 10 am on August 14.
