Mother and father of RG Kar sufferer search permission from metropolis court docket for entry to crime scene

Mother and father of the physician who was raped and killed at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital final 12 months, made a prayer to a metropolis court docket on Monday (July 7, 2025), requesting to revisit the crime scene.

The matter is more likely to be heard by the Extra Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace of the Sealdah Civil and Prison Court docket tomorrow.

On August 9, 2024, a post-graduate trainee physician was discovered lifeless in a seminar corridor of the chest medication division on the fourth ground of the emergency constructing of the State-run RG Kar Medical School and Hospital. 

“We don’t assume that the Central Bureau of Investigation is finishing up a correct investigation to nab all culprits. So it’s important that we, with our authorized counsel, can entry the seminar corridor the place all of it unfolded. A revisit will assist our legal professionals reply questions throughout future court docket proceedings. Many questions are requested in regards to the crime scene, which our present lawyer has not seen,” the sufferer’s father advised The Hindu on Monday (July 7, 2025).

He added that Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket had directed them to method the Sealdah court docket to hunt permission for revisiting the place of prevalence.

Notably, final 12 months, former principal of the medical school, Sandip Ghosh, was accused of tampering with the crime scene after an official letter signed by him and dated August 10 had surfaced on-line, directing “pressing” renovations in each division of the hospital.

Considerations have been additionally raised across the police probe when a video had surfaced on-line capturing a crowd on the crime scene after the physique was discovered. The police had later clarified that “a 40-foot space” across the sufferer’s physique had been cordoned off, however the sufferer’s mother and father had contested their claims.

Whereas civic volunteer Sanjay Roy was pronounced responsible and sentenced to life imprisonment for the physician’s rape and homicide in January this 12 months, the mother and father had petitioned the Calcutta Excessive Court docket for additional investigation into the case. 

In an earlier dialog with The Hindu, the household had expressed their dissatisfaction with the CBI’s ongoing probe into the case.

Renewed protest march on one-year mark

The sufferer’s mother and father additionally mentioned on Monday (July 7, 2025) that they might “positively be current” on the ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ (march to State Secretariat) rally in opposition to the State authorities on August 9, 2025. Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, after assembly them final week, mentioned he would “take part within the protest with out flags” and “make all efforts to make the motion profitable”. 

August 9 would mark one 12 months for the reason that unlucky incident. Moreover, activists have given a name to re-initiate ‘Reclaim The Evening’ protests on August 14, one 12 months since its inception on the identical day final 12 months.

“We may also attend the Reclaim The Evening protest that’s being organised on August 14, like final 12 months. We are going to attempt to cowl as many areas as potential,” the bereaved father mentioned.

Final 12 months, on August 14 and subsequently on different nights, girls’s rights organisations had organised huge ‘Reclaim The Evening’ protests late at night time throughout the State, urging individuals, particularly girls, to go away their properties and march for the precise to navigate public areas safely after darkish.