
Criminal Syndicate Connected to R.G. Kar Medical College Student's Murder: Students
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OpIndia & Agencies, 14 August 2024 : The incident rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata has sparked nationwide protest and also dragged a mountain of mess on the RG Kar Medical College. Notably, the hospital administration had first claimed that it was a suicide case, but the probe revealed that it was a case of brutal rape and murder. While the CBI has taken over the case and is investigating every minute aspect related to the case of the victim’s doctor, this is not the first such to have happened at the hospital.
23 years ago, a medical student at RG Kar Medical College was found dead, police claimed it was suicide but High Court ordered probe after allegations of murder for trying to expose a porn ring
On 25 August in 2001, a fourth-year medical student at RG Kar Medical College was found hanging in his hostel room, and it was claimed by the authorities that it was a suicide case, just like the current case. But when the family of victim Soumitra Biswas disagreed and demanded a probe, the Calcutta High Court ordered a CID investigation into the case.
Soumitra’s mother had alleged that her son’s friends at the medical college were responsible for his death, as he allegedly discovered indecent activities on the campus. Notably, several students at the medical college had blamed an alleged porn ring in the RG Kar Medical College for the death of Soumitra Biswas.
Talking to the media, students from R.G. Kar Medical College at that time accused pornography, prostitution networks, and shady dealings with women for the ‘murder’ of an innocent. The students claimed that Soumitra was ‘murdered’ and it was all organized and masterminded by state doctors and staged directly within the hostel of one of the city’s best medical institutions. According to his colleagues, Soumitra paid the price for exposing the nasty work of shooting pornographic photos and videos in one or more hostel rooms.
Soumitra was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room at Lalit Memorial Hostel, next to the medical college.
“Soumitra, like all of us, knew about it but neither he nor any one of us had the courage to challenge it. But when a close friend of Soumitra, a batchmate, was victimised by the coterie who superimposed her face on another woman’s nude body, he could not control himself,” said an inmate in the hostel.
According to them, the shooting was done primarily on weekends by inviting sex workers into the hostel. “During the crisis, when they couldn’t find a prostitute, they even used dead bodies from the hospital used for dissection. It is a massive racket being supported by a political leader. Then they would superimpose models’ faces over naked photos of dead bodies,” claimed another fourth-year student.
The student had said that shootings of porn videos took place in hospital classrooms, seminar rooms and hostel rooms. They said that authorities knew everything but they didn’t do anything. The miscreants allegedly used photos of faces of female students at the medical college to superimpose on the videos made with prostitutes.
They claimed that when Soumitra’s girlfriend’s photo was also used in this manner, he protested against the gang, and this ultimately led to his death. Reportedly, Soumitra had told his batchmate Auromita Das about the mischief committed by some of the males who, he claimed, had pasted her face from images taken at a birthday celebration onto nude bodies and shared the unpleasant photographs. She then found out that it was done by someone whose advances she had rejected in the past.
She also claimed to have approached the young men and ticked them off, confiding in the heat of the moment that Soumitra had informed her of the existence of the morphed images. Soumitra’s ‘betrayal’, protests, and possible threat to expose the scam, according to a substantial portion of the students, may have contributed to his death.
The allegations were supported by the fact that tripods and reflectors were found in a hostel room, allegedly used to shoot porn videos. While students verified that the room was frequently utilized for shooting, the police did not even bother to search the room during the investigation, even though the tripods and reflectors were still present after the dead body of Soumitra Biswas was discovered in the adjacent room, indicating that shooting by a group continued even after Biswas’ death.
However, no action was taken against the hostel or college administrators for willful negligence. Ironically, there were enough early indicators of foul play. When Biswas’s dead body was discovered, a handkerchief was found shoved in his throat, according to the OC of Chitpur Police Station.
Dr. Apurba Bose of the R.G. Kar Medical College also informed the media that the door at the back of the room had been oddly wrenched open. The physicians were equally startled to observe the youngster hanging from the ceiling fan with a very short nylon string. The youth couldn’t have tied the noose around his own neck and then reached for the ceiling fan because the length was too short, they said.
Even though Auromita Das, a female student of the medical college, was arrested in connection with the case, the West Bengal Police CID could not make much progress in the case, and it remains unresolved. The police had questioned several members of SFI, the student wing of CPM, but could not find any clue.
Aditya Ghish, Soumen Bhattacharya | TNN | Aug 15, 2024, KOLKATA: The credibility of Kolkata police has once again taken a beating following slipshod investigation into the death of a fourth year medical student at R.G. Kar medical college.
This story is from November 07, 2001 published in TNN.
Soumitra biswas was found hanging in his hostel room on august 25. the police closed the case as suicide after a perfunctory inquiry, only to reopen it towards the end of October following complaints of foul play by the deceased's parents in a fresh twist to the case on Tuesday this week, the police arrested Auromita das, a girl student of the medical college. they had earlier arrested yet another student Amit Bala in this connection.
Dr Apurba Bose, attached to the R.G. Kar Medical College, also told TNN that the door at the rear of the room was strangely found to have been forced open. The doctors were also surprised to see the boy hanging from the ceiling fan by a very short nylon string. The length was so short that the boy could not possibly have tied the noose round his own neck and then reached out to the ceiling fan, added Dr Bose. But the post-mortem report, according to the police, had ruled out foul play and put it down as suicide. the forensic report on the viscera is however still awaited.
"Soumitra, like all of us, knew about it but neither he nor any one of us had the courage to challenge it. But when a close friend of Soumitra, a batchmate, was victimised by the coterie who superimposed her face on another woman's nude body, he could not control himself," said an inmate in the hostel. According to them, the shooting was done mainly over weekends, by inviting sex workers into the hostel. "During crisis, when they could not arrange any prostitute, they even used dead bodies in the hospital that are used for dissection. It is a huge racket, being patronised by a political leader. Then they would superimpose the face of models to the nude shots of dead bodies," alleged another student in the fourth year.
The allegation appeared to carry some weight when TNN stumbled upon tri-pods and reflectors in room number 15 on the first floor of the hostel. while students confirmed that the room was used regularly for shooting, the police strangely had not even bothered to search the room till Tuesday this week. Even more strangely, the tripods etc had not been removed after the dead body of Soumitra Biswas was recovered from the adjacent room, indicating that 'shooting' by a group of students continued even after the death of Biswas.
No action however has been taken against hostel or college authorities for willful negligence. ironically, there were enough early indications that suggested foul play. when the dead body of Biswas was found, confirmed the OC of Chitpur police station, a handkerchief was also found stuffed in his throat.
Soumitra, recalled his batchmate Auromita das days before she herself was arrested, had told her of the mischief done by some of the boys who, he said, had superimposed her face, taken from photographs shot at a birthday party, to nude bodies and circulated the objectionable photographs. she traced the mischief to the time when she had rebuffed overtures made by some of these boys.
She also claims that she had confronted the boys and ticked them off, confiding in the heat of the moment that Soumitra had told her about the existence of the photographs. Soumitra's 'betrayal', protests and possibly threat to expose the racket, suspect a large section of the students, may have led to his killing. He had left his Barrackpore home, recalls his mother, on the fateful morning, promising that he would return for lunch. He never did.
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