Kolkata, May 22 -- The Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered the formation of a three-member Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) special investigation team (SIT) headed by a joint director (Eastern Zone) in the 2024 RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case and sought its report during the next hearing on June 25, lawyers who attended the hearing said. "The division bench of Justices Shampa Sarkar and Tirthankar Ghosh passed the order after hearing the petition that the deceased junior doctor's parents filed in 2025 alleging a larger conspiracy and concerted efforts to hide evidence at and around the crime scene," a lawyer present in court said. The court directed the CBI to examine the sequence of events: from the time the victim had dinner with some junior doctors on the night of August 9, 2024, as claimed by her parents, to the discovery of her body hours later in the third-floor seminar hall of the hospital's emergency building, and finally, the cremation. "The victim's family alleged that those who had dinner with their daughter were neither questioned by the Kolkata Police nor the CBI which took over the probe following the Calcutta high court's August 13, 2024 order," the lawyer added. The court also directed the CBI to file a report on the investigations conducted after the October 7, 2024, chargesheet which led to the jail sentence of former Kolkata police civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, whom the CBI described as the sole perpetrator of the crime. In a verbal reply to this direction, CBI's lawyers told the bench that around 80 people were questioned during this period of one year and seven months. Thursday's development came days after the division bench of Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Rai Chattopadhyay recused itself from further hearing on the parents' petition on May 12, after directing the CBI to start a fresh probe in April. The case was redirected to the bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul who assigned the matter to the bench of Justices Shampa Sarkar and Tirthankar Ghosh. The RG Kar crime was one of the key issues in the recently held Bengal assembly polls that the Bharatiya Janata Party swept. Promising an inquiry commission if it came to power, the BJP fielded Ratna Debnath, the victim's mother, from the Panihati seat in the North 24 Parganas district, which she won. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah both campaigned for Debnath who alleged after the crime that senior Trinamool Congress leaders and government officials hatched a conspiracy to kill her daughter to hide something. On May 15, six days after being sworn in as chief minister, Suvendu Adhikari suspended former Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal and two other Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, Indira Mukherjee and Abhisek Gupta, on charges of mishandling the case and offering money to the victim's parents. Adhikari ordered a probe against them. West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced the suspension of former Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal and two other Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, Indira Mukherjee and Abhishek Gupta, on charges of mishandling the 2024 RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case and offering money to the victim's parents. "After taking charge as home minister, I sought reports from the home secretary and the Kolkata police commissioner on what actions police initially took after the RG Kar incident. The fact-finding job pointed to mishandling of the case, lapses in lodging the FIR (First Information Report), and illegal monetary offers to the victim's family," Adhikari said at the state secretariat. "We will check all phone call records and WhatsApp chats to find out if any minister or the chief minister gave any orders to these officers," Adhikari said without naming Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was in charge of both the home and the health departments at the time of the incident. "We are suspending Vineet Goyal, who is currently ADG (IB) and two other officers, Indira Mukherjee and Abhishek Gupta. Departmental proceedings will start against them under the chief secretary's guidelines. Since they belong to the Union cadre, procedural action will be taken as per rules," he added. Adhikari clarified that the state government was not getting into the actual investigation of the crime, which is being conducted by the CBI. "The probe into the actual crime is being conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). I am not getting into it. The court is supervising that," he said. After the CM's announcement, the victim's mother Ratna Debnath said, "This is the only battle for me. I am happy but I will not rest till my daughter gets justice. I am living only for her." Debnath won the North 24 Parganas district's Panihati seat for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Bengal assembly elections after carrying out a crusade in court and on the streets for two years. Aniket Mahato, one of the prominent faces of the doctors' movement at that time, also welcomed Adhikari's decision. "We always demanded a thorough investigation into the role of the police officers who handled the case. We kept saying they were working under instructions from the top," he said. Debnath alleged after the crime that senior politicians and government officials hatched a conspiracy to kill her daughter to hide something. She also alleged that Abhishek Gupta (a 2011 batch officer), who was the deputy commissioner of Kolkata's north division, was one of the officers who went to her home in North 24 Parganas and offered money....