Rape and murder of doctor in Kolkata: Investigators in the rape and murder case of a 31-year-old junior doctor at a Kolkata hospital have released CCTV footage showing the accused, Sanjoy Roy, entering the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital shortly after midnight on August 9.

The footage shows a Bluetooth earphone around the neck of the suspect. The CCTV footage and a Bluetooth device found near the body of the junior doctor led to the arrest of Sanjoy Roy, who was seen entering the seminar hall of the college where the body was found.

Sanjoy Roy (33) joined the Kolkata Police as a civilian volunteer in 2019. Kolkata Police have alleged that he was married at least four times and was a known ‘womanizer’.

The accused, a trained boxer, developed good contacts with some senior police officials over the years. He was subsequently transferred to the Kolkata Police Welfare Board and posted at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital police station.

The CCTV footage shows Sanjoy Roy entering the hospital at 1.03 am, NDTV reported, citing unnamed sources. During interrogation, the police showed him the CCTV camera evidence, following which Sanjoy Roy reportedly confessed to the crime.

Sanjoy Roy was lurking at the victim

CCTV footage from the hospital’s thoracic unit shows the 33-year-old volunteer peering at the victim and four other young doctors.

“The CCTV footage shows Roy staring at them,” anonymous sources told News18.

The victim went to the seminar room at 1:00 AM on August 9 to rest. A junior doctor spoke to her in the seminar room at 2:30 AM. After their conversation, she went back to sleep.

She was found dead the next morning.

On Friday, a special court in Kolkata gave permission for a lie detector test to be conducted on Sanjoy Roy.

The court has already given the go-ahead for conducting the lie detector test on Sandip Ghosh, the former director of the medical college, and four other doctors who were on duty at the hospital on the night of August 8 and 9.

A team of experts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Delhi will conduct the tests, news agency PTI reported.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also awaiting Roy’s DNA and psychoanalysis reports, which will provide further direction to the investigation, it added.

The CBI told the Supreme Court on Thursday that there was an attempt to cover up the rape and murder of the medical graduate by local police as the crime scene was altered before the federal agency took over the investigation.

The rape and murder of the resident doctor in a hospital seminar room sparked widespread protests.

The doctor’s body was found with serious injuries in the seminar room of the hospital’s pulmonology department on the morning of August 9. Roy was arrested the next day.

On August 13, the Calcutta High Court ordered that the investigation be transferred from the Kolkata Police to the CBI, which began its probe on August 14.