Ex-head of India's RG Kar College charged with alleged evidence tampering in rape case

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India's federal police have charged former R.G. Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh with evidence linked to the rape and murder of a junior female doctor in Kolkata.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/b4XoO  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00India's federal police have charged former RGKAR Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh

00:07with evidence linked to the rape and murder of a junior female doctor in Kolkata.

00:12The additional charge was made against Ghosh, who has been in police custody for a graft

00:16probe since September 2.

00:19On Saturday, the Central Bureau of Investigation also arrested Kolkata's Thala Police Station

00:24officer Abhijit Mondal for allegedly failing to protect the crime scene.

00:29The bureau said Ghosh and others allegedly delayed declaring the victim's death as well

00:34as filing a first information report, which led to the destruction of vital evidence.

00:41The case has triggered weeks of nationwide protests in the country.

00:59Ghosh resigned from his post at the college days after the incident became public.

01:14The arrests come after the appearance of the prime suspect and former police volunteer

01:18Sanjay Roy in court for the rape-murder of the 31-year-old victim who was found dead

01:24at her workplace last month.

01:26Authorities have also arrested two hospital supply vendors and a close aide of Ghosh.

01:32Despite tougher laws since the 2012 Delhi gang rape, activists say the Kolkata incident

01:38showed that the fight against sexual violence in India is still far from over.

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