The caller, a woman who identified herself as the hospital’s deputy director, reportedly called the victim’s parents three times from the same number within about 30 minutes, urging them to come to the facility urgently.
“I’m calling from RG Kar Hospital. Can you come over right now?” the caller was heard telling the victim’s father when he first picked up the phone at around 10:53 a.m. that morning.
The father replied, “Why? What happened?” The caller then replied, “Your daughter has become a little ill. We are taking her to the hospital. Can you come down quickly?”
When the parent insisted on further details, the caller was heard saying, “These details can only be given by doctors. We have only found out your number and can call you. Please come down quickly. The patient was admitted after he fell ill. The doctors will inform you of the rest when they arrive.”
In the background, the victim’s worried mother could be heard asking, “Does she have a fever?”
“Come over quickly,” was the caller’s response.
“Is her condition very serious?” the father’s voice was heard asking. “Yes, her condition is very serious. Come quickly,” was the answer from the other end. The conversation lasted one minute and eleven seconds.
The second call, which lasted about 46 seconds, came about five minutes later. It was apparently the same caller and she was heard saying, “Your condition is critical, very critical. Please come over as soon as possible.”
When the father desperately asked what had happened to his daughter, the voice on the other end replied: “Only doctors can say that. Please come over.”
When the father asked her to reveal her identity, the caller said, “I’m the deputy chief. I’m not a doctor. We took your daughter to the emergency room. Please come by and contact us.”
“But what could have happened to her? She was on duty,” a mother’s panicked voice could be heard in the background.
“Come over here as soon as you can,” was the reply.
The third and final call was the one in which the victim’s death was confirmed, albeit with a twist.
“Yes, please listen… we have told you several times that your daughter… may have committed suicide… or that she died. The police are here. All of us from the hospital are here. We are calling you and asking you to come down quickly,” the same voice as on the first two calls announced in incoherent sentences.
The last call lasted 28 seconds.
The significant changes in the hospital’s statement, from “the victim became slightly ill” to “he was in a very critical condition and was admitted to the emergency room” to “he may have committed suicide,” have raised questions among investigators about whether “a carefully planned suicide plan was hatched by the hospital administration and police to cover up the crime,” an official said.
“Especially since in her last phone call, in which she misled the family about the cause of the victim’s death, the caller admitted that she spoke in the presence of police and hospital authorities,” the officer added.
It is important to note that the first GD entry regarding the crime at Tallah PS, which mentioned “unnatural death”, was made long before the first call from the hospital to the parents, the official said.
“How could the hospital administration, fully aware of the cruelty of the crime, break the news to the parents in such an indifferent and manipulative manner,” asked a protesting student.
