Kolkata, Sept 14: CBI moves court seeking narco test on Sanjay Roy
Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention in the RG Kar hospital impasse.
Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front were also sent to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda.
A post-graduate trainee was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Junior doctors have been on ‘cease work’ since then.
“We humbly place the issues before your esteemed excellency, as the head of state, so that our unfortunate colleague who has been the victim of the most despicable crime shall receive justice, and so that we, the healthcare professionals under the West Bengal Health department, may be able to discharge our duties to the public without fear and apprehension.
“Your intervention in these trying times will act as a beacon of light to us all, showing us the way ahead out of the darkness that surrounds us,” they wrote.
One of the agitating doctors, Aniket Mahato, told PTI that the letter was drafted earlier this month and sent on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, the CBI is planning to conduct a narco analysis test on Sanjay Roy, who was arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital here, an officer said on Friday.
The central probe agency has appealed to the city-based Sealdah court, seeking permission to conduct the test on Roy, he said.
“This is primarily to cross-check whether Roy is telling the truth. The narco analysis test will help us verify his version,” the officer told PTI.
The accused was brought to the Sealdah court, where the judge spoke to him personally to find out whether he had any objection to it.
During a narco analysis test, the drug – sodium pentothal – is injected into the body of the subject, which takes him to a hypnotic state, and his imagination is neutralised, the CBI officer said.
“In most cases, the accused gives the true information,” he said.
The hearing related to the CBI’s appeal is expected sometime this afternoon.
The CBI has already conducted a polygraph test on Roy inside the Presidency Correctional Home.
Meanwhile, a CBI team on Thursday went to the RG Kar Hospital, where the body of the postgraduate trainee was found on August 9, and spoke to several officers besides visiting departments as a part of its investigation. The CBI took over the case from the Kolkata Police upon directions of the Calcutta High Court. (PTI)
