What transpired in 22 minutes: Facing blind spot, CBI seeks polygraph test of ex-RG Kar college principal Sandip Ghosh, 4 others | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: RG Kar Medical College‘s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh and four colleagues of the junior doctor found raped and murdered on campus agreed Thursday to take polygraph tests, based on CBI’s request for their legal consent to use this method for verification of statements made to the agency so far.

CBI wants a polygraph test on Ghosh, who is under the scanner for reporting the Aug 9 rape-murder to police long after the crime was detected, because of alleged discrepancies in what he told interrogators over the past week.
He and the four colleagues of the victim were taken to the Sealdah additional chief judicial magistrate’s court to record their consent, sources told TOI. The court’s permission is awaited.
The result of a polygraph or lie detector test is inadmissible in court. But investigative agencies rely on it to provide leads that could help them find admissible evidence.
In the RG Kar rape-murder case, CBI has encountered a blind spot – what transpired in the 22 minutes between two calls to the victim’s family by someone at the hospital on Aug 9. The first call, at 10.53am, was to inform the family that she was “unwell”. The second call, at 11.15am, was to convey the news that she “died by suicide”.
Her four colleagues will be put through a polygraph test to piece together her final few hours. They were the last people to have seen and interacted with her the night the crime occurred.
Like Ghosh, the quartet has already been interrogated by CBI multiple times.
CBI has already sought the court’s permission to run a polygraph test on Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect to be arrested in the case so far. Roy is to be produced in court Friday.
The victim’s parents iterated Thursday a conspiracy to destroy evidence, saying that this has prevented the arrest of the real culprits. “We do not know the password or pattern to unlock my daughter’s mobile phone. If the investigation agency manages to unlock it, significant clues can be obtained,” her mother said.
They expressed frustration with the progress of the investigation so far. “Nearly 9 to 10 days have passed since CBI took over the case. No one from the department or the college cooperated with us. The entire department is responsible for my daughter’s murder,” the father said.
The parents urged that their daughter’s death should not be politicised. “We don’t want to hear about the SC, HC, or any probe agencies. We seek only justice as soon as possible.”