KOLKATA: In a significant development, Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has been sent to 8 days of police custody in connection with a corruption case. While hearing the matter, the Alipore Court granted the CBI eight-day custody of Sandip Ghosh and three others in the case of alleged financial irregularities at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
During the hearing of the matter, the CBI said at the court that there is a large nexus that needs to be exposed and hence we are asking for interrogation. "We have just arrested 4 people. There is a large nexus. We need their custody to unearth the entire nexus,” the CBI said in the court.
Earlier in the day, Sandip Ghosh and three others were brought to Alipore Judges Court in connection with RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in connection with financial irregularities case after they were arrested by the CBI anti-corruption branch last night.
Just after an hour of Ghosh’s arrest, the CBI officers picked up his security guard and two vendors who used to supply materials to the hospital where the body of a woman medic was found on August 9.
The CBI on Monday arrested former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and three others in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at the facility,
Senior officials of the CBI said that three others who have been arrested are Ghosh's security guard Afsar Ali (44), and hospital vendors Biplav Singha (52) and Suman Hazara (46) who used to supply material to the hospital.
Monday was the 15th day of Ghosh's questioning by the agency. From the agency's Salt Lake office, the 53-year-old was taken to the CBI's Nizam Palace office in Kolkata, which houses the agency's anti-corruption wing, and was arrested.
This is the second major arrest at the hospital since August 9. Earlier, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjoy Roy, was arrested by the Kolkata Police and handed over to the central agency in connection with the medic's alleged rape and murder.
On August 23, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar hospital from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The direction came in response to a petition by former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, who prayed for a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into multiple counts of alleged financial misconduct at the state-run institute during Gosh's tenure as its principal.
Ghosh served as principal of RG Kar Medical College from February 2021 to September 2023. He was transferred from RG Kar in October of that year but inexplicably returned to that position within a month.
Frustrated over the West Bengal Medical Council’s (WBMA) attitude towards taking action despite complaints levelled against Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, two prominent doctors in the state resigned from WBMA.
Dr Dipanjan Bandhyopadhyay, head of the department of medicine North Bengal Medical College and Hospital and Dr Suman Mukhopadhyay tendered their resignation on Wednesday.
In their letter, they mentioned that the medical fraternity is shocked at the gruesome murder and rape of a 31-year-old post graduate trainee doctor of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. A series of allegations and counter-allegations have surfaced in matters concerning the investigations into the criminal act. Unfortunately, the names of some members of WBMC have been drawn into the picture. In an effort to preserve the sanctity and glory of WBMC, it has been absolutely necessary to resign from such organisation.
Meanwhile, along with the junior doctors who are protesting in every corner of the street for justice for the RG Kar victim, the lawyers of Calcutta High Court also formed a human chain outside the court premise demanding justice for RG Kar victim.
The junior doctors continued their protest claiming that they wanted the resignation of the police commissioner Vinit Goyel and they will continue their protest till the Goyel resigns.
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