ED team reaches former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh’s residence to conduct search ops

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 12 (ANI): A team of the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday reached the residence of the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, at Chinar Park in Kolkata to carry out a search operation.

Further details are awaited.

On September 10, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court remanded Sandip Ghosh and three others to judicial custody till September 23 in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital financial irregularities case.

The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sandip Ghosh on September 2.

Ghosh was under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and hospital, following a directive from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter.

On August 24, following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, an official FIR was registered by the CBI against Ghosh in the alleged corruption case. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) of Kolkata also suspended the membership of former Sandip Ghosh amid a CBI probe into the corruption case.

Earlier on August 26, the CBI conducted a second round of polygraph tests on Ghosh as part of their investigation into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the institution.

The Calcutta High Court has granted the CBI three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, which is to be presented on September 17.

A woman trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.

On Friday, the Supreme Court refused to entertain Sandip Ghosh’s plea against the Calcutta High Court decision ordering a CBI probe into the graft case, whereby he raised objections to the adverse remarks made against him.

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra rejected Sandip Ghosh’s plea.

The top court said that Sandip Ghosh doesn’t have locus to intervene in public interest litigation alleging financial irregularities. Meanwhile, Ghosh’s counsel told the court that he is not against investigation by the CBI but raised an objection to the observation made against him by the Calcutta High Court. Ghosh’s lawyer said that connecting him with the RG Kar rape incident is an injustice.

However, the top court said that Ghosh was the principal of the RG Kar College when the incidents took place. The court also said that it is a matter of investigation, and for this, it has already sought a status report from the CBI on the suo motu petition initiated by it on the incident.