Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case revealed that all three lift operators who were on duty on the night of March 20 when the incident took place were completely inebriated due to overconsumption of alcohol and were not in a position to attend to duties.Investigation revealed that the mishap in the hospital building that houses the trauma care centre could also have happened in any other lift, since the persons who were supposed to operate those elevators …
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Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death revealed that the lift operators at the hospital had received no training on how to handle emergency situations and they had been appointed just one month prior to the tragic incident on March 20.Detectives from Kolkata Police uncovered this crucial information while interrogating the three lift operators arrested in connection with the fatal incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in which Arup Banerjee of Nager Baza…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Investigations into the elevator death at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have revealed that the same lift had malfunctioned just seven days before the tragic incident.According to Kolkata Police, the elevator in the Trauma Care unit developed technical issues on March 13, prompting engineers to inspect and reportedly repair it the same day. However, on March 20, Arup Banerjee, a resident of Nager Bazar in north Kolkata, was crushed between the elevator an…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case have revealed that the security guards were completely unaware that a key to the basement was kept in the office of the Superintendent of the hospital. As a result, what should have taken just three minutes to find the key ended up taking 33 minutes. Despite suffering fractures to his ribs and ruptures to his internal organs, Arup Banerjee had survived for nearly an hour. Investigators said on Tuesday that his life could…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Monday regarding the death of a Dum Dum resident after he was trapped in an elevator at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The petition alleges negligence and seeks a CBI investigation into the incident.The Division Bench, headed by Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, has granted permission to file the case. The matter is scheduled to be heard on March 27.On Monday, social activist Vijay Kumar Singhal fil…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Fresh allegations of mismanagement have surfaced at the Trauma Care Unit of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The family of a patient on Monday claimed that he died due to the hospital’s mismanagement while seeking medical treatment. It is alleged that the patient was not even provided with a stretcher to go to the restroom. The middle-aged man, identified as Biswajit Samanta, collapsed while attempting to walk there and passed away shortly thereafter last night.Famil…
Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) A forensic team visited RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday and collected samples from the elevator that malfunctioned, killing a man on March 20.The forensic team is trying to ascertain why the elevator in the Trauma Care building at RG Kar spiralled out of control and what exactly caused the mechanical failure. The team is also attempting to determine whether the elevator malfunctioned as a result of multiple buttons being pressed simultaneously.Arup Banerj…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) The family members of Pulak Haldar, a final-year student of Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital and Medical College in West Bengal’s Nadia district, whose decomposed body was recovered from the hostel room, have claimed that he was murdered.The autopsy of the medical student’s body will be conducted on Friday, and only after that will the medical reasons behind the death be ascertained, said an investigating officer in the case.According to Sudhanshu Haldar, the fat…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The father of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder victim on Thursday questioned the role of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is currently probing the case, and expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of the investigation.Speaking to reporters after the hearing at the Sealdah court, the victim’s father said he believed assigning the investigation to the CBI had been a mistake. “It was a mistake to give the CBI the responsibility o…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The ‘whistle-blower’ of RG Kar’s financial irregularities, Akhtar Ali, is in more trouble as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is going to frame charges against him. The central investigation agency filed an application in the Alipore CBI court on Tuesday in this regard. The court has allowed the agency to frame charges against him. According to the CBI, charges will be framed against the accused Akhtar Ali on February 25. The court also directed that Akhtar Ali wi…