Father suspects Kolkata doctor was not killed in seminar hall amid renovation row

The father of the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has indicated.

That his daughter might have been killed in some other room and then her body was brought to the seminar hall. The remark comes amid allegations that the renovation near the third-floor seminar hall of the chest department in the emergency building of the hospital was ordered to destroy vital evidence.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the victim’s father said, “We found lapses by the police and informed the CBI. We now doubt if she was murdered in the seminar hall. It might be that she was killed elsewhere.”

However, the father of the 31-year-old doctor, who was found in a semi-naked state with multiple wounds on her body on August 9, said he had faith in the CBI investigation and demanded the harshest punishment for the accused.

“I want action to be taken against the hospital department. We have faith in the investigative team,” he said.

“One of my daughters is gone, but I feel that thousands of crores of my sons and daughters are on the streets right now. There is a movement on this from Bangladesh to the entire world. We want justice,” the victim’s father said.

On Friday, the Calcutta High Court also questioned the Bengal government about the “urgency” of renovation work near the crime scene.

Reacting to it, the state government told the court that the allegations were not correct, and renovation was being done to build a restroom for doctors.

The allegations that there was a bid to destroy the crime scene gained credance after a violent mob stormed the hospital premises on Wednesday night and vandalised the emergency ward of the main building, a ward on the first floor and the ENT department on the second floor — one below the crime scene.

On Friday, the parents of the doctor told the CBI that several interns and physicians from the hospital might be involved in the crime, PTI reported.

“The parents told us that they suspect the involvement of multiple persons behind the murder of their daughter. They have given names of a few interns and doctors who worked with her at the hospital,” a CBI officer said.