Police personnel produce the accused arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, at a city court in Kolkata.
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Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation has got the nod from a local court to conduct a polygraph test on Sanjay Roy, who was arrested over rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
The CBI moved the court seeking permission to conduct the polygraph (or lie detection) test to ascertain the veracity of some of the information he gave to the investigating officers during questioning. The court granted permission to the CBI to conduct the test.
A psychoanalysis test was also conducted on Roy on Sunday.
Roy, according to police sources, confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering the young doctor of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The civic volunteer – one of the contractual employees appointed to support Kolkata Police – was arrested on August 10, a day after the partially nude body of the doctor was found in the seminar room of the Department of Chest Medicine on the fourth floor of the hospital.
He was handed over to the CBI after the central agency took over the probe on August 14.
The police investigators zeroed in on the civic volunteer after analysing the CCTV footage. Besides, his bluetooth headphone was also found near the body of the victim at the scene of the rape and murder. The cops found pornographic content on his phone.
Sources said that Roy, who was known as an alcoholic, had gone to a red-light area on August 8 before coming to the RGKMCH. He had misbehaved with another woman while coming to the hospital from the red-light area.
Though Roy was not deployed at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, he was a frequent visitor at the healthcare facility run by the state government of West Bengal.
Preliminary investigation by the police revealed that he had been involved with a racket that had extorted money from the families of the patients by promising them admission and beds at the generally overcrowded hospital. He and other members of the racket had also been sending patients from faraway places to nearby private nursing homes upon denial of admission at the RGKMCH due to lack of beds.