A video in being widely shared online wherein Kolkata Police ASI Anup Dutta is seen running away from the media as he is being questioned about his closeness with Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the
Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case. The incident occurred on Tuesday, August 21, when ASI Anup Dutta was summoned to the CBI office for questioning in the case.
ASI Dutta, who belongs to the Kolkata Police’s 4th Battalion, is said to be close to Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested in the Kolkata rape-murder case.
When the Kolkata cop was heading towards the CBI Crime Branch office at the CGO complex in Kolkata, a journalist questioned him about his relationship with Sanjay Roy.
“Since when do you know Sanjay Roy,” one journalist asks Dutta, who in his haste to dodge the question starts sprinting in the direction of the CBI Crime Branch office. Some journalists request him to run slowly because they fear he will trip and fall. “Anup babu, slow down.. you will fall down.. you will trip over.. ” says a concerned journalist, but ASI is unfazed and continues to sprint as swiftly as he can to get away from the press.
Watch Kolkata Police ASI Anup Dutta sprinting away when a journalist questioned his closeness with the RG Kar case accused Sanjay Roy. pic.twitter.com/urUJZJDhNb
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On Tuesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned the assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Kolkata Police Anup Dutta for questioning about his relationship with accused Sanjay Roy and any knowledge he may have of the night of the incident after the CBI officials reportedly accessed multiple photographs showing Dutt and Roy together.
On the night of the rape and murder, Sanjay Roy reportedly called Kolkata police ASI Anup Dutta.
The CBI further learned that Roy used to reside with Dutta in the Kolkata Police 4th Battalion barracks in Salt Lake. The Central agency is attempting to ascertain whether Dutta knew of Roy’s crime before his arrest.
Roy, a civic volunteer, who is already in custody, was also interrogated about any interactions he had with the victim among other things.
The Central Bureau of Investigation took over the probe into the trainee doctor’s rape and murder in
Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College from the Kolkata Police last week upon directions of the Calcutta High Court.
On Thursday, 15th August, a clipping of an argument from the Calcutta High Court was shared on social media, and it was exposed that the Kolkata Police and the state investigating the case wanted 7 days before transferring the case investigation to CBI. After the court denied the plea, the police demanded at least 24 hours before transferring the case to CBI. It was alleged that the state sought time to allegedly derail the evidence and create hindrances in the central investigation.
It may be recalled that some unidentified goons attacked RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday night, causing massive damage amid ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a doctor at the facility.
A mob disguised as protestors, entered the hospital grounds, vandalized property, and also pelted stones at the police officers. The violence led to the damage of a police vehicle and several two-wheelers, with some officers sustaining injuries. As per the BJP, TMC goons vandalized the hospital properties to create hindrances in the investigation. It is alleged that the mob tried to vandalise the crime scene, but they vandalised the wrong floor due to confusion with the floor number.
Kolkata Police Commissioner Goel who arrived at the scene around 2 am, selectively attributed the violence to social media posts and rumors. He stated that the police responded to the chaos by firing tear gas shells. The Police meanwhile also attempted to allegedly cover up the violence by claiming that the scene of the crime had not been disturbed during the mob vandalism that broke out late on the night of August 14. Goel also said that police could not arrest anyone just based on ‘rumors’ that were being spread.
RG Kar Medical College Rape and Murder Case
On 9th August, a semi-nude body of a female PG trainee doctor was found inside the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. It is a government-run hospital. Following the discovery, her father had said that she was raped and killed inside the hospital, and efforts were underway to “conceal the truth.”
The doctor was brutally tortured before she was suffocated to death, according to the post-mortem report. The four-page report stated that she had been strangled and that “perverted sexuality” and “genital torture” had resulted in serious wounds in her private parts.
