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Times of India | 13 August 2024
Students protest on RG Kar campus on Monday KOLKATA: Kolkata Police has time till Sunday to wind up the RG Kar rape-murder probe, failing which Bengal govt will hand over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee gave this ultimatum to the local police force after talking to the 31-year-old doctor's parents at their Sodepur home on Monday. Banerjee, speaking to the media after a 45-minute interaction with the family, also spoke of their suspicion of an "insider role": "There were nurses and others around.I still do not understand how this incident took place. The parents have told me that they suspect the involvement of an insider. I have told the police that if there is any suspicion against anyone - be it the doctor's friends or the first caller (who informed the family of the incident) - they should be questioned."
The chief minister, expressing shock at the "brutality of how she was killed", repeated her promise that prosecution would demand capital punishment.
The CM, while saying she had nothing against a CBI probe, reminded everyone of the central agency's lack of success in taking the big cases to their logical conclusion. "I do not have any issue with a CBI takeover but their success rate is low," she said, referring to the Tapasi Malik murder case (2006), the Rizwanur death case (2007) and the Santiniketan Tagore Nobel prize medal theft case (2004).
KP seniors, within hours of the CM's deadline, increased the number of officials assigned to the SIT probing the case; the core unit, supervising the probe, was expanded from seven to 13, with a team of 150 officers working in three shifts to complete the probe.