Kolkata murder case: No ‘gang rape’, Sanjay Roy sole accused in CBI remand note

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing into the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College.

And Hospital in Kolkata last month, has not mentioned “gang rape” in its remand note submitted before a trial court in Kolkata on Friday, people aware of the development said. The Kolkata Police, which was probing into the case in the initial stage, had lodged a first information report (FIR) under sections 64 (rape) and 103 (1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on August 9. Later the CBI registered a FIR under the same sections, when it was directed by the Calcutta high court to investigate the case. The additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) court in Sealdah sent Sanjay Roy to 14 days of judicial custody.

“The agency, while seeking judicial custody for Roy before the ACJM court on Friday, didn’t include section 70 (1) of the BNS (section for gang rape) in the remand note indicating. The official, however, said that investigators may add penal sections at any stage of the case depending on how the probe was progressing. Even though the Kolkata Police’s detective department was handling the case initially, the CBI has been probing into it since August 13 on the orders after the Calcutta high court.

No CBI official commented on this.

Roy is the only person arrested in the case so far. He was arrested by the Kolkata Police a day after the crime. The case was later handed over to the CBI.