Calcutta doctor suffered 14 injuries before dying; autopsy report suggests multiple perpetrators involved

Kolkata: The autopsy report of the doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at Kolkata's government-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on August 9 revealed that she had sustained a total of 14 injuries before her death. According to the report, multiple injuries were found on different parts of the body, including head, cheeks, lips, nose, right jaw, chin, neck, left arm, left shoulder, left knee, ankle and internal genitalia.

Bleeding in the lungs was found, as well as blood clots in other parts of the body and a thick, viscous white fluid in the genitals. The report's findings indicate that the victim's death was due to the effect of manual strangulation coupled with suffocation, with the manner of death being homicide, the sources said.

The report also mentioned medical evidence of forcible penetration of the victim's genitals, suggesting sexual assault, the sources added. Blood and other samples have been sent for further analysis.

Medical experts say the report's findings are consistent with the claims of the protesting medical students and residents that the gruesome rape and murder was not the work of a single person but that multiple partners were involved in the crime. Dr Subarna Goswami, a former student of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who has gone through the report, claimed that it indicates multiple penetrations. “The autopsy report is evidence of the brutality she was subjected to, the presence of more than one person and that she was sexually assaulted more than once. This is brutality at its worst,” he said.

So far, only one person, volunteer Sanjay Roy, has been taken into custody. He was arrested by the Kolkata police and later handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The CBI took over the investigation on the orders of the Kolkata High Court.

According to sources, the investigating CBI sleuths are also trying hard to trace other accomplices in the crime by questioning several people and in particular the former and controversial director of RG Kar Medical College Hospital, Sandip Ghosh.

Ghosh was interrogated for 12-13 hours over the past three days by the CBI office in Salt Lake City on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. The body of the postgraduate intern was found in a seminar room of the local hospital on the morning of August 9.

(With IANS and PTI inputs.)