On Wednesday, former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh approached the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order transferring the corruption case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
On September 6, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Ghosh’s petition and the case will be reviewed by a bench consisting of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Mishra.
‘The 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’, said the officials. 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. Since August 9, this is the second major arrest at the hospital.
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 investigation 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 an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into various 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 that year but returned to that position within a month. He held his position at the hospital till the day the hospital doctor was found dead.
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