The former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh has been sent to 8 days of police custody in connection with a corruption case stemming from financial irregularities in the medical establishment. A 31-year-old woman doctor was found raped and murdered in RG Kar MCH on August 9.
On Monday, the anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested Sandip Ghosh in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the medical establishment during his tenure. The CBI’s Special Crime Branch is probing the rape and murder case while the anti-corruption wing is probing the financial irregularities case.
The CBI had earlier named Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in the FIR in connection with its probe into the alleged financial irregularities at the institution during his tenure.
The agency had filed the FIR under Section 120B of IPC (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 420 IPC (cheating and dishonesty) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (amended in 2018) which covers unlawful acceptance of gratification by a public servant.
The FIR was lodged after the CBI took over the probe from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) following directions of the Calcutta High Court.
The order was issued on a petition by former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Hospital, Akhtar Ali, who requested a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged financial misconduct at the institution.
Ali had moved the high court after fervent speculations in the public domain on whether the alleged rampant corruption at the institution was in any way connected to the medic’s death with possibilities of the victim remaining privy to those and threatening exposure.
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