A special court was informed by the primary suspect in the rape and murder case of a junior doctor in a Kolkata hospital that he desired to undergo a lie-detector test in order to ensure that “the truth comes out,” the suspect’s attorney told the media.
Sanjay Roy, the main suspect, was given permission to undergo a polygraph (lie-detector) test yesterday by a special court in Kolkata.
Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and four other medical professionals who were on duty the night the junior doctor’s body was discovered in the hospital’s seminar hall were already scheduled to undergo lie-detector tests, as approved by the court.
When asked by the court if Sanjay Roy was prepared for the polygraph, the counsel for Roy said,