Kolkata: The parents of the woman doctor from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was raped and murdered last month have accused the Kolkata Police of deliberate ‘laxity and ill-intention’ in handling the preliminary investigation into the case before it was handed over to the CBI by the Calcutta High Court.
Aside from accusing the city police of purposefully delaying the registration of their complaint as a FIR, the parents have also accused an officer of the city police of attempting to get them to settle the matter for money.
Speaking to a group media persons late Wednesday night while joining the protesting junior doctors on the same hospital grounds, the victim’s parents questioned the time between filing the complaint and having it registered as an FIR by the cops at the local Tala Police Station.
“We filed our complaints between 6.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on August 9, and the same was registered as an FIR at 11.45 p.m. Why? When the body of our daughter was brought home, a senior officer of Kolkata Police requested us to settle the matter against money, which we refused immediately,” said the father of the victim.
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He further said that someone tried to persuade him to sign a blank paper, which he promptly refuted.
At the same time, the victim’s parents have expressed concern about the city police’s hasty completion of their daughter’s cremation at the Panihati crematorium.
“We wanted our daughter’s body to be preserved for some time. But we were not allowed and were virtually forced to cremate the body in a hurry. Even the crematorium authorities did not accept any cremation fee from us,” said the victim’s father.
He also accused a Kolkata Police official of purposefully misleading people through false media remarks even after the CBI took over the inquiry.
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–IANS
