The Central Bureau of Investigation is mulling to subject RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s ex-principal, Dr Sandip Ghosh, to a polygraph test. The lie-detector test will be performed because the agency had found “discrepancies” in some of his answers during interrogation, said a CBI official.
Earlier this month, a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered inside the hospital’s seminar room. She had gone to the room to rest amid her gruelling 36-hour-long shift. The Kolkata police arrested a civic volunteer named Sanjoy Roy for the grisly murder after his Bluetooth headphones were found near the body.
The CBI has been interrogating Sandip Ghosh – who had resigned two days after the crime – for several days to figure out if the doctor was murdered as part of a conspiracy.
According to reports, the CBI has asked Ghosh what was his first reaction when he heard about the murder. The agency has also asked the doctor why he made the victim’s parents wait for three hours before handing over the body.
The agency told PTI they wanted to verify Sandip Ghosh’s answers through the polygraph test.
“We want to further verify Ghosh’s answers, as there have been discrepancies in some of the replies to our questions. Therefore, we are mulling over the option to conduct a polygraph test on him,” the official told PTI.
