CBI summons 11 cops in RG Kar rape-murder case

KOLKATA: CBI has summoned 11 Kolkata cops for questioning on Monday and Tuesday in connection with its probe into criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case.

This comes two days after the slain 32-year-old PGT intern's parents took their complaint of "a slow-paced and ineffective probe" to CBI director Praveen Sood.

On Jan 20, a sessions court in the city had sentenced civic volunteer Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for the crime. A city court is hearing a related case in which former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh and former local Tala OC Abhijit Mandal had been arrested, but were later granted bail because CBI filed no chargesheets against them within the statutory 90-day period.

Sources said the cops summoned now were mostly manning RG Kar's police outpost, while some were at the local Tala police station on Aug 9 and Aug 10 last year. The trainee doctor was raped and killed on Aug 9, following which massives protests by doctors and citizens erupted in the city.

CBI has questioned several Kolkata cops earlier, including senior officers who were part of an SIT that probed the crime before the central agency was handed the case by the high court. Several of these officers had deposed in court in the just-concluded trial.

The victim's parents have, however, been vocal about alleged CBI lapses, from lack of cooperation to shoddy probe.