Kolkata doctor rape case: Lawyer questions credibility of Vineet Goyal as…

The case of a postgraduate trainee doctor’s rape and murder at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata may not reach a conclusion, with the accused potentially walking free, counsel who appeared on behalf of one of the petitioners said in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday while arguing for a transfer of the case to the CBI, as reported by The Telegraph. 
Firoz Eduljee, the counsel, told the division bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, “Be rest assured, milord, ten years from now – because I have argued Kamduni in which the acquittals took place – this case will go just the Kamduni way. The accused will be acquitted. I will show it to your lordship how he will be acquitted.” 
On June 7, 2013, a second-year BA student from Derozio College was abducted while on her way home to Kamduni. She was brutally gang-raped and murdered, and her body was discarded in a field. Last October, the Calcutta High Court reduced the death sentences of two of the convicts. Another individual, who had been convicted and sentenced to death by a lower court, was acquitted of all charges.
Edulji’s comments came after the chief justice questioned the state’s senior standing counsel, Amitosh Banerjee, about the state of the case. “There is an apprehension that if time lost there is chances of something getting derailed. How do you ensure that doesn’t happen?”
Edulji, who was one of the defence counsels for those accused in the Kamduni rape and murder case of June 2013, told the high court that the investigation into the Kamduni rape and murder case was led by the present Calcutta police commissioner, Vineet Goyal, who was then IG (CID).
“Because this very commissioner of police was the IG CID when Kamduni murder took place. It is due to his blotching up of the entire case that today Kamduni has failed. I was the defence counsel; I defended them. But today when I appear for the victim, this person has now been rewarded by being made the CP. This person should be put on compulsory waiting,” Edulji told the court, as reported by The Telegraph. 
The bench, led by Calcutta High Court Chief Justices T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, ordered a court-monitored CBI probe later that day.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered inside the medical college in Kolkata where she worked on Friday, triggering nationwide protests by medics and drawing parallels to the notorious gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in 2012.
Her colleagues told Reuters that the doctor had retired to sleep on a piece of carpet in a seminar room at the RG Kar Medical College after a marathon 36-hour shift, given the lack of dorms or resting rooms for doctors on the premises.
She was found dead on Friday. Police said she had been raped and murdered, and a police volunteer was subsequently arrested in connection with the crime.
The victim was found bleeding from her eyes and mouth, with injuries to her legs, stomach, ankles, right hand and finger, a doctor’s inquest report on August 9 and accessed by Reuters said.