RG Kar case: CFSL report creates doubts about actual ‘scene of crime’

Kolkata: The forensic report submitted to the CBI by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) has raised doubts about the actual ‘scene of crime’ in the murder of junior doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital, according to reports.

The report submitted on September 11 found no evidence of possible struggle or resistance at the crime scene in the seminar room where the doctor was allegedly raped and murdered, India Today reported. The doctor’s body was found in the seminar hall of the hospital on August 9.

The incident triggered protests across the nation with CBI eventually filing chargesheet against prime accused Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer attached to the Kolkata Police.

The samples that experts from CFSL collected at the crime scene included the wooden stage mattress in the seminar hall where the doctor was allegedly assaulted.

The CFSL report said that ‘The cut mark portions observed on this mattress were reasonably corresponding to the head and lower abdomen area of an injured victim who stated or happens to be lying on this mattress’.

It further added that ‘However, the evidence of a possible struggle shown by the victim with the assailant or fight in between them was found missing in the shown area of occurrence, i.e., the wooden stage mattress and the adjoining area inside the seminar hall’.

Also, the forensic analysis found 'no biological stains' on or around the wooden stage, or in the seminar room floor, apart from the mattress on the wooden stage.

In fact, sources said, the CFSL report strengthens the apprehension raised by the section of the medical fraternity in the state that the actual 'scene of the crime' was someplace else and after the ghastly rape and murder the body was shifted to the seminar hall to mislead future investigation.

The explosive CFSL report on this count surfaced on the day when Calcutta High Court’s single Judge Bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh will hear a petition of the parents of the victim woman doctor seeking a fresh probe in the matter since the beginning.

Sources said that during the initial investigation carried out by Kolkata Police, the investigating cops of city police collected a total of 40 items from the seminar hall where the body of the victim was spotted on August 9.

Later after the Calcutta High Court directed the CBI to take charge of the investigation, several items recovered from the seminar hall were forwarded to CFSL for examination purposes. On August 14, a team of CFSL experts also physically examined the purported scene of the crime, i.e., the seminar hall.

Thereafter based on forensic reports of the items seized and the physical examination of the scene of the crime, CFSL has submitted a report to CBI which has created doubts about the actual scene of crime.

With inputs from IANS