Kolkata Rape-Murder: CBI Denied Permission To Conduct Narco Test Of Sanjay Roy; Docs Want PM & Prez To Step In

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was on Friday denied permission by a Sealdah court here to carry out a narco test of Sanjoy Roy, prime accused in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital last month.

Also known as narcoanalysis, the narco test is used to try and extract information from a person by administering a drug – generally sodium pentothal — that induces a hypnotic or semi-conscious state.

The CBI had appealed to the additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) court for grant of permission for the narco-analysis test. Roy’s consent was also sought.

Roy, a civic volunteer attached to the Kolkata police, is the only person to have been arrested in the case so far. He was arrested on August 10, a day after the doctor’s body was found in the hospital’s seminar hall. The accused was brought to the court from Presidency Correctional Home, where he is presently lodged.

Agitating doctors in Kolkata seek’s President & PM’s intervention

The case has triggered massive protests and outcry across Bengal. Junior doctors are on ceasework agitation, but are running clinics named as ‘Abhaya clinics’ for the patients on road. With their charter of demands—primarily seeking resignations of Kolkata Police Commissioner and top health officials—the doctors have been on a sit-in protest near Bengal’s Swasthya Bhawan, the headquarters of health department since the past couple of days. On Thursday, they didn’t attend a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as their demand of live streaming the same was not accepted.

Amid such developments, agitating junior doctors have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention in the case. Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front were also sent to Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda.

“Your intervention in these trying times will act as a beacon of light to us all, showing us the way ahead out of the darkness that surrounds us,” they wrote.

Left parties hold massive march to Kolkata Police Headquarters

CPI (M) party workers staged a massive protest in Kolkata demanding justice for the woman doctor. They also demanded resignation of Kolkata Police Commissioner and marched towards Laalbazar, Kolkata Police headquarters, amid heavy police deployment and barricades to obstruct them.