CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Chilling details regarding the accused in the Kolkata rape and murder case emerge as police interrogate his whereabouts on the day the crime happened.
According to reports, the accused Sanjoy Roy went to the red-light area twice, in Kalighat and Sovabazar, on Thursday night before he allegedly brutalised the young doctor at RG Kar Medical College. After he committed the crime, Roy went back home and slept for a few hours.
He then tried to wash off his clothes and shoes to remove evidence and blood traces. Police, however, found marks of blood on the shoe of the accused. “After committing the crime, the accused went back to the place where he was staying and slept till late on Friday morning. After waking up, he washed the clothes he was wearing during the crime to destroy evidence. His shoes, with blood stains on them, were found during a search,” City Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal told reporters.
Roy was a civic volunteer who is not associated with the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital but used to frequent the place. He also reportedly wore clothes with KP (Kolkata Police) written on it. His two-wheeler too had a KP tag and he often introduced himself as a a Kolkata Police personnel.
He used his connection within the hospital to extort money from patients’s relatives by promising to secure them a bed, according to News 18’s report.
Though he had married four times. Three of his previous wives left him because of his abusive nature and one of them died of cancer. One of his wife’s relatives told the media that they had even approached the police against him.
Local media reports added that Sanjay Roy confessed to the crime during police interrogation without remorse and even told the police to “hang him if they wanted. Police also recovered pornographic content found on his mobile phone.
