KOLKATA: Investigations into the RG Kar elevator death case revealed that all three lift operators who were on duty on the night of March 20 when the incident took place were completely inebriated due to overconsumption of alcohol and were not in a position to attend to duties.
Investigation revealed that the mishap in the hospital building that houses the trauma care centre could also have happened in any other lift, since the persons who were supposed to operate those elevators were not in a position to perform their duties, an insider from the Kolkata Police said.
All three elevator operators are currently in police custody. During the investigation, they also admitted that none of them received any kind of training before they joined their duties at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, which was a month before the mishap occurred
The combination of lack of training and the inebriated condition of the on-duty elevator operators eliminated even the last effort to rescue Arup Bandopadhyay, the victim of the mishap.