The parents of the victim of a rape and murder at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital last year have moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission for their legal counsel to visit the crime scene.
On Monday, their counsel moved the matter for an urgent hearing before the single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Monday. The court granted permission for the matter to be filed.
Both the victim’s father and the counsel confirmed to The Indian Express that they moved court on Monday but declined to comment otherwise on the matter.
In January this year, a Kolkata sessions court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the crime, to life imprisonment.
The doctor’s body was found on August 9 in the hospital’s seminar room, triggering widespread protests across the nation. Roy was arrested a day after the incident, and the case was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The counsels of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the family members of the victim had prayed for capital punishment for the convict, Sanjay Roy, a former civic police volunteer. The court had on January 18 held Roy guilty of BNS sections 64 (rape), 66 (causing injury resulting in death of rape victim) and 103 (1) (murder).
The CBI had taken over the investigation into the case, as well as alleged financial irregularities linked to the medical college and hospital, later in August 2024.
The victim’s parents had said they were not satisfied with the CBI investigation and had subsequently approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking further investigation.
On March 28 this year, the CBI informed the court that its investigation, supported by the opinion of a board of medical experts, found that the incident was not a gang rape. The victim’s father alleged “procedural lapses in the course” of the investigation. The parents claimed that the CBI has not filed any supplementary chargesheet in the rape and murder case since the first and only chargesheet filed in October 2024, and that the agency “ceased all communication with the family” after November last year.