NEW DELHI: The special CBI court has sent the accused in the RG Kar Medical College financial scam investigation to judicial custody until September 23. Among the co-accused in the case are former principal of RG Kar medical college
Sandip Ghosh
, Biplab Singha, Suman Hazra, and Afsar Ali.
Ghosh, along with two vendors and his security personnel, was arrested by the probe agency for their alleged involvement in
financial irregularities
at the state-run hospital, where a post graduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered on August 9.
The officer mentioned that the two vendors had known Ghosh since his time at Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital and were granted contracts at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital due to their close relationship with him. Ghosh brought these vendors from Murshidabad to Kolkata when he became the principal of RG Kar hospital, and they were given preferential treatment for supplying materials to the hospital.
According to the CBI’s findings, former RG Kar Hospital and College principal Sandip Ghosh had been engaging in a “
criminal nexus
” with his co-accused, resulting in wrongful financial loss to the government.
An officer said, “Evidence collected during (the) investigation conducted so far, has revealed that Dr Sandip Ghosh, in criminal nexus with other co-accused persons, by way of illegal means, caused wrongful loss to the government and corresponding wrongful gain to himself and other accused persons.”
The Enforcement Directorate is also investigating the ex-principal and conducted searches at 11 locations, including Ghosh’s Beliaghata residence, Canning farmhouse, and the homes of his relatives and associates, in connection with the alleged financial irregularities during his tenure at the hospital. Prasun Chatterjee, a data entry operator at Chittaranjan National Medical College and an aide of the former principal, was also detained by the central agency.
Sandip Ghosh’s petition to intervene in proceedings before the Calcutta high court, which had ordered a CBI probe into an alleged biomedical waste disposal scam at the hospital and its possible link to the rape and murder of the doctor on August 9, was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Friday.
