QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Mrinmoy Basak, a junior doctor at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, asked what happened to CBI’s claims of “destruction of evidence” and “larger conspiracy”. “We still do not know what is the motive behind the crime. The CBI had themselves pointed to a larger conspiracy. Who were the others involved in the larger conspiracy? These questions remain unanswered,” said Basak, who also alleged a “lack of transparency” in the CBI probe."
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STORY: "Questions and gaps remain, say junior doctors outside Sealdah court," by Reporters Subhajoy Roy and Samarpita Banerjee, published by The Telegraph India, on January 19, 2025.
SUB-HEADING: "A junior doctor, who went on a hunger strike in October, said the court did not say Sanjay Roy, who was pronounced guilty on Saturday, was the only person to have committed the crime."
GIST: "Saturday’s verdict in the RG Kar case did not mean closure, junior doctors said outside the Sealdah court on Saturday. They would still want to know about the “larger conspiracy” and “destruction of evidence” that the CBI had earlier spoken about.
A junior doctor, who went on a hunger strike in October, said the court did not say Sanjay Roy, who was pronounced guilty on Saturday, was the only person to have committed the crime. They believed there were more people involved in the crime and “proper justice” would be served when all were punished.
The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front distributed pamphlets outside the Sealdah court raising 20 questions like why the parents of the raped and murdered doctor were not allowed to enter the seminar room, where the doctor’s body was found, for three hours after their arrival.
“We have nothing to comment on Sanjay Roy being found guilty. If the probe and the courts found Roy guilty, he should be punished. The court did not say that Roy was the only person involved in this crime. The others might still be wandering among us,” said Arnab Mukherjee, a postdoctoral trainee at SSKM Hospital.
Mrinmoy Basak, a junior doctor at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, asked what happened to CBI’s claims of “destruction of evidence” and “larger conspiracy”.
“We still do not know what is the motive behind the crime. The CBI had themselves pointed to a larger conspiracy. Who were the others involved in the larger conspiracy? These questions remain unanswered,” said Basak, who also alleged a “lack of transparency” in the CBI probe.
The CBI arrested former officer-in-charge of Tala police station Abhijit Mandal and former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh on September 15 in the rape and murder case. During their court production the next day, the CBI’s lawyers said there was a “conspiracy with hospital authorities and unknown persons” and wrong information was included intentionally.
Both obtained bail in the case. While Mandal was released, Ghosh is still in custody in a financial irregularity case at RG Kar that the CBI is also probing.
“Justice does not merely mean finding someone guilty. Proper justice will be served if these unanswered questions are answered,” said Asfakulla Naiya, a postgraduate trainee at RG Kar hospital.
The junior doctors, with some senior doctors and others, also marched from outside the Sealdah court to Moulali.
“We welcome the court’s order, but at the same time we demand that others who are involved...should be brought under probe,” said Utpal Bandopadhyay, a member of the Joint Platform of Doctors’, an umbrella organisation of several senior doctors’ associations.""
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
