'Everything Was Altered, We Entered The Probe On Day 5': CBI To Supreme Court In Kolkata Rape-Murder Case
Everything has changed, we started the investigation on the 5th day: CBI in the Supreme Court in the case of rape and murder of Calcutta
The Supreme Court observed that the guidelines of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) for handling a case of unnatural death were not followed by the Kolkata Police. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the rape and murder case of a Kolkata doctor, told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the investigation has been adjourned to the fifth day and everything after that has been "modified ".
Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta told the high court, "The CBI started the investigation on the fifth day and everything changed after that."
The central probe agency submitted its status report on the Supreme Court directive on Tuesday and pointed out the problems with the date and time recorded by the Kolkata Police. The CBI also informed the court that the former principal of RG Kar, whom they questioned, was linked to some financial irregularities in the medical college and that he had allegedly rented the institution's surveillance cameras instead of buying them. “One aspect is that the entry in the Daily Diary (DD) of the Kolkata Police was made at 10:10, but the crime scene was secured only in the late evening. "It is worrisome," SG Mehta told the three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud.
Kolkata Police did not enforce CrPC rules: SC
For this, the court asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal (who represented the Bengal government) when the post-mortem was conducted. Sibal replied that the autopsy was done between 6.10 pm and 7.10 pm.
The court said that since the body was sent for post-mortem, it was an unnatural death. The court asked Sibal when the inquiry panchnama was thrown out. After being questioned, the High Court found that the guidelines of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CPC) for handling a case of unnatural death were not followed by the Kolkata Police. The court asked Sibal to bring the police officer in charge who could inform the court what exactly happened after the body was found.
Justice JB Pardiwala also said: "The entire procedure followed by your state (West Bengal) is something that I have not come across in my 30 years of career."
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