Audio surfaces, adds grist to ‘others involved’ mill
Times of India | 13 August 2024
Kolkata: A viral audio that is being shared over social media and instant messaging platforms since Sunday night has raised fresh questions about who else may be involved in the brutal rape and murder of the second year PGT doctor at R G Kar Hospital early on Friday.
TOI, however, couldn’t confirm the authenticity of the contents of the audio.
While cops arrested a 35-year-old civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, in less than 24 hours after the crime came to light and stressed that only one person was responsible, the viral audio — purportedly a phone conversation between an intern of the same hospital and a PGT doctor of another hospital — has raised fresh concerns.
The conversation in the audio starts with the PGT asking the intern to tell him the real story behind whatever has come up in the public forum in this case, to which the intern says the whole movement is staged and is apparently controlled by the principal and his subordinates.
“It feels good that outsiders are doing so much depending on us. But, we are not sustainable by ourselves. He (Sanjay Roy) has been made a scapegoat. With that the authorities wanted us to forget it. But, they don’t know that IQ is there, that it is not possible for him to do,” the intern is heard saying.
The intern goes on to say that the post-mortem report shows that the injuries on the woman are not the work of one person but at least two or three, to which the PGT asks: “Who could it be? What do you suspect?”
The intern replies that it is the work of another intern with a considerable political background.
“His family is quite high-ranking. I can’t take the name. That will be my problem. It’s sad that my own batchmate has done it. So many games are being played to protect him,” he is heard saying.
While CP Vineet Goyal had stressed that involvement of multiple people was a rumour and asked protesting students not to pay heed to it, multiple forensic sciences officials TOI spoke to said throttling needs two hands and smothering one.
In the audio, the intern is heard pleading the PGT to garner support from outside.
“Don’t expect anything from RG Kar where the accused is hiding, where nothing is being addressed in general body meeting, where the principal comes and says why would she sleep there at night?” he is heard saying.