Overview
- Arup Banerjee, 39, died at RG Kar Medical College on March 20 after a hospital elevator trapped and crushed him during an erratic trip that ended in the basement.
- The same lift malfunctioned on March 13, when engineers traced a software fault in the motherboard, made repairs, and cleared it for use, which police now question as possibly incomplete.
- After a mid-February contractor switch, a new agency supplied operators who received no emergency training and had no night supervision, and a police source told IANS the three on duty were drunk and unfit to respond.
- Detectives say the operators cut power and hauled the car with a manual lever, causing the door to clamp on Banerjee’s leg and the moving car to crush him against the shaft wall.
- Police have questioned about 30 people and arrested five, including three operators, and they are awaiting a final forensic report on the control panel to determine precise causes and accountability.