The senior Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member told the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday that he would delete a controversial social media post that had called for custodial interrogation of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal in relation to the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital.
The Kolkata Police had issued two notices to Roy, asking him to come to Kolkata for questioning in connection with the allegations of spreading misinformation through the post. Roy then approached the Calcutta High Court seeking protection from coercive police action, including arrest.
Roy's counsel had submitted, during the hearing before the court on Tuesday, that Roy had already agreed to delete the adduced controversial post from his X handle. Following this, the West Bengal government counsel assured the court that considering the compliance by Roy, the police would not proceed with the prosecution further and close the case.
At the time of filing this report, Roy's post no longer appeared on his X account, indicating it was deleted.
Justice Rajarshi Bhardwaj, who heard the matter directed that a report regarding this has to be submitted by the State Government to the Court by this Wednesday.
The Kolkata Police had issued a notice to Roy initially on Sunday, wherein he was asked to report before them at the city police headquarters that very afternoon. A second notice was issued following his failure to do so, after which Roy moved the court for its intervention in the matter.
Meanwhile, the CBI that has taken over the case is scanning the crime history of Sanjay Roy, the only person arrested in connection with the incident. The sources revealed that the CBI has found that a number of cases exist where the civic volunteer was either harassing or sexually abusing women, but no such cases or action was taken against him then.
The CBI is also probing the role of Roy's "godfathers" whose patronage may have saved him from disciplinary action, and documents reveal that he was often drunk on duty.
Roy was initially arrested by the Kolkata Police, which probed the rape and murder of the doctor before the case was transferred to the CBI on the orders of the Calcutta High Court.
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