The commissioner strongly defended the police’s investigation into the rape and homicide.
Kolkata:
Hours after the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom pulled up the West Bengal authorities and the police over the vandalism of the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital, the place a trainee physician was brutally raped and murdered final week, Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal has admitted that there was an “evaluation failure”.
Ladies in Kolkata and plenty of different components of the nation had organised a vigil, calling it ‘girls, reclaim the night time’ on Wednesday. Throughout the vigil, which started round 11 pm, some folks entered the premises of the RG Kar Medical School and Hospital and went on a rampage. Automobiles have been attacked, public property was broken and the police needed to resort to a lathicharge in addition to firing teargas shells to regulate the state of affairs.
The Kolkata Police mentioned 15 policemen have been injured and 25 folks have been arrested to this point.
On Friday, when Mr Goyal was requested in regards to the vandalism and why it could not be prevented, he mentioned, “It was a leaderless crowd, anticipating and assessing how many individuals would collect in a single place was troublesome. We needed to unfold ourselves skinny. There have been many ladies there and we needed to hold their security in thoughts; among the individuals who have been arrested embrace girls. So we needed to be restrained in our response. We couldn’t be utilizing pressure left, proper and centre, identical to that. There was enough deployment and officers have been there, making an attempt to maintain the gang in examine.”
“Regardless of that, the barricade was breached and other people bought into the hospital and vandalised the place. We’ve got 15 individuals who have been injured badly,” the police commissioner added.
Mr Goyal, nevertheless, strongly defended the police’s investigation into the rape and homicide and accused “so-called specialists” of making narratives.
“Far too many rumours are floating round, which don’t have any foundation. And, primarily based on these, so-called specialists are attempting to say that Kolkata Police has not achieved this, or it was a gang-rape by so many individuals. Proof needs to be scientific in nature. The case is now with the CBI, let’s belief the company investigating the case. They may even provide you with proof. No matter we needed to do in no matter little time we had was achieved,” he mentioned.
Mr Goyal mentioned the CBI would discover out if there was any destruction of proof by the Kolkata Police and the pressure could be accountable for authorized motion if there was something that was achieved flawed.
“Why are folks so impatient? Place confidence in the brand new investigating company. Why is that this rumour-mongering happening… Our officers are cooperating with the company. We’ve got tried to be as clear as attainable,” he pressured.
How Will Medical doctors Work Fearlessly?
Earlier on Friday, the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom rapped the Bengal authorities and the police and mentioned {that a} mob happening the rampage within the hospital was an “absolute failure of state equipment”.
“Usually police has an intelligence wing… comparable issues occurred on Hanuman Jayanti. If 7,000 are to collect, it’s laborious to imagine police didn’t know… That is an absolute failure of state equipment… So that they (the police) could not shield their very own males? A sorry state of affairs. How will medical doctors there work fearlessly?” the bench fumed.
The courtroom additionally requested for photographic proof that the seminar room, the place the 31-year-old was raped and murdered, was not vandalised.