In the ongoing investigation into the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor, the CBI has found evidence of corruption and host of illegal activities running in the RG Kar Hospital, as reported by Bengali media on Wednesday (11th September 2024). One of the places under the CBI scanner for corruption and other illegal activities is RG Kar Hospital’s morgue which reportedly has a thriving business of recording sex videos with dead bodies and running necrophilic porn rackets.
Moreover, at least 60 to 70 bodies have gone unaccounted for every financial year since 2021, according to reports citing CBI sources,
Incidentally, the trainee doctor’s horrific rape and murder has opened a can of worms for RG Kar Hospital which had often been in the news over allegations of one criminal activity or the other or of suspicious deaths. Now, it has landed itself in another controversy as reportedly it has come to light that illegal activities were going on in the Hospital’s morgue night after night.
Unrestricted access, necrophilia porn
As per reports, several people including Sanjay Roy, the accused arrested in the trainee doctor’s rape and murder case, had unrestricted night access to the hospital’s morgue which should have been closed at around 7:30-8 PM daily. Evidently, no post-mortems are done at night and the morgues are closed at night. The key of the main door is kept with the department head. Even if a dead body arrives late at night, it is brought to the mortuary through the back door.
However, the investigators believe that people not only had night access to the morgue, corpses were taken out of the cold chamber late at night, and this had been going on for a long time. Necrophilic miscreants then performed intercourse with the dead bodies and recorded the obscene acts on their mobile phones.
According to the agency sources, they found videos that were recorded in the RG Kar Hospital morgue on Sanjay’s mobile phone. In these photos and videos, he and others were seen having intercourse with dead bodies inside the morgue.
As per reports, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s morgue has more than 40 cold chambers. The chambers were opened at night and the light inside the morgue remained on most of the day and night. Apart from Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested in the rape-murder case, several other civic volunteers had unrestricted access to the Hospital morgue. Additionally, some of their relatives were also in daily traffic at the morgue.
Kolkata Police arrested Sanjay Roy in the trainee doctor’s rape and murder case on the night of 9th August. At that time, Police sources said that the accused had a serious penchant for pornography, and many porn videos which are banned in India were recovered from his mobile phone. This included videos of intercourse with dead bodies, or Necrophilia. According to the investigators, some of them were taken from the hospital’s morgue.
It is also speculated that there was a corruption syndicate around dead bodies at the hospital that had been formed over the years. Many people are involved in this syndicate. Anand Bazar Patrika reported that there was a cycle of pornography behind it. The investigators have not ruled out the suspicion of selling such videos abroad for huge amounts of money.
Apart from pornography involving dead bodies, CBI has also found evidence of other corruptions involving the morgue at the medical college and hospital. It has come to light is that at least 60 to 70 bodies went unaccounted for in each financial year since 2021. The biggest problem is with the body parts. Detectives suspect that the skeletons were removed from the bodies and sold separately. It also has been found that there is no proper recording of bodies in the mortuary register.
According to CBI sources, they have collected the interior design of the morgue, cold chamber, register book, and CCTV footage of the last few months.
The CBI has sought an explanation from Prabir Chakraborty,, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, regarding the discrepancy in the register. However, as per the agency’s sources, he could not give satisfactory answers. Although he responded to the CBI interrogation the first time, he is not even picking up the phone, nor is he responding to any messages.
North Bengal Lobby
Furthermore, another prominent angle in the RG Kar scandal is the alleged influence of the ‘North Bengal’ lobby. The Head of the Department of Medicine was shifted to another department on verbal instructions by former Principal Sandeep Ghosh. In February this year, he was replaced by a man who was previously working at the North Bengal Medical College.
The heads of the ‘syndicate’ allegedly made the mortuary an arena of corruption through him. From there huge sums of money reached the syndicate every month. To collect money, a minimum contract of Rs 10,000 was made for the dissection of the dead bodies coming for post-mortem examination, proper stitching, and arranging the hearse to the crematorium.
However, the investigators have yet to find out who is directly involved in this work and how deep are the roots of this cycle.
As per workers, many of the syndicate leaders used to enter the morgue at night, however, it was an unwritten rule to remain silent even after witnessing crime and injustice.
A worker, on the condition of anonymity, said, “Liquor bottles were brought to the morgue in the evening. No one, small workers like us, had the courage to say anything. They were either transferred or threatened.”
Porn shooting and sex with death body accusations leveled earlier also
However, this is not the first time that Kolkata’s government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been marred with grave allegations of pornographic racket and miscreants allegedly indulging in sex with dead bodies at the Hospital morgue. Incidentally, reports that such clandestine and illegal activities had been going on in the RG Kar Hospital came to light 23 years ago.
In 2001, the mysterious death of a fourth-year medical student, Soumitra Biswas, at RG Kar Medical College was termed a suicide by police. However, when the parents fought a legal battle, the High Court ordered a murder probe as it was alleged that the student was killed for trying to expose porn rings, including perverse acts of sex with dead bodies.
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.
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.
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.
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 a student.
The students 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 the 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. The allegations were supported by the fact that after the death, tripods and reflectors were found in a hostel room, allegedly used to shoot porn videos.
