Kolkata rape-murder case: Former RG Kar principal to undergo lie-detector test as court grants CBI nod

The CBI took Ghosh and four other doctors, who were on duty on the date of the incident, to a special court for seeking its permission to conduct the lie detection test on them, they said.

Doctors stage a protest demanding justice for a woman doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Photo | PTI

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) has got a nod from the court to conduct lie detection test on former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and four other doctors in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at the hospital.

The CBI took Ghosh and four other doctors, who were on duty on the date of the incident, to a special court to seek its permission to conduct the lie detection test on them.

The lie detection test can only be done after a permission from the court and the consent of the suspect.

Earlier in the day, the CBI alleged in the Supreme Court that there was an attempt by the local police to cover-up the rape and killing of the post-graduate medic as the crime scene was altered by the time the federal agency took over the probe.

The rape and killing of the junior doctor in a seminar hall of the hospital has sparked widespread protests.

The medic's body with severe injury marks was found inside the seminar hall of the hospital's chest department in the morning of August 9.

A civic volunteer of the Kolkata Police was arrested the following day.

On August 13, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the probe from the Kolkata Police to the CBI, which started its investigation on August 14.

(With inputs from PTI )