Leaked CCTV footage hints at tampered evidence in Kolkata rape-murder Case

KOLKATA: A CCTV footage which was leaked in social media found that many outsiders including police, a lawyer of the hospital Shantanu Dey, and hospital staff, were near the victim’s body at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, but not the victim’s family members.

Questions have been raised as to how a lawyer was sent before by the hospital and not by police. Additionally, who called the lawyer? Suspicions were brewing inside the hospital campus that whether the hospital authorities knew about the rape and murder much before the police officials went to the spot.

Meanwhile, CBI names ex-principal of RG Kar Dr Sandip Ghosh in their FIR.

In the CCTV footage it was also found that many hospital authorities including the Head of the Department of Forensic Science was also present at the site and questions have been raised about whether evidence could have been tampered as more people were present at the site other than police officers.