RG Kar Rape-Murder Case: Calcutta HC Orders CBI SIT To Probe Hush-Up Charges

Last Updated:May 21, 2026, 16:22 IST

The court further directed the SIT to file a comprehensive report by June 25, when the matter will be heard again.

RG Kar Rape Case Probe: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered setting up a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the CBI to investigate developments linked to the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August 2024.

The court said that the SIT would probe events from the time the doctor had dinner on the night of the incident till her cremation the following day.

A division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh directed that the CBI Joint Director (East) will head the SIT, while the names of the other two members will be finalised within 48 hours. The court said the probe would focus on allegations of evidence destruction and claims by the victim’s parents that attempts were made to hush up and downplay the incident after the crime came to light.

The bench said that, considering the social ramifications of the gruesome incident, a three-member SIT would look into charges of evidence destruction and allegations made by the medic’s parents that there were attempts to hush up and downplay the incident.

The court further directed the SIT to file a comprehensive report by June 25, when the matter will be heard again.

The victim’s parents had approached the high court seeking further investigation, claiming that more than one person was involved in the crime.

The trainee doctor was raped and murdered in the hospital on the night of August 9, 2024, which caused an uproar in the state as well as among the doctors’ community across the country.

Civic volunteer Sanjay Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of the post-graduate trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

(With inputs from agencies)

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