The former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) anti-corruption branch, on Monday.
Ghosh was arrested in connection with the alleged ‘financial misconduct’ at the RG Kar hospital, officials said.
Ghosh was questioned for 15 days straight at the CBI’s Salt Lake office over the alleged rape and murder of the RG Kar hospital post-graduate trainee on August 9. He was also subjected to polygraph tests.
Ghosh was taken to CBI Anti Corruption Branch in Nizam Palace from CBI special crime branch office in the Salt Lake CGO Complex in Kolkata.
Apart from the Kolkata doctor rape case, Ghosh was also being investigated for alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar hospital.
As soon as the news broke of Ghosh’s arrest, junior doctors who had been protesting against the Kolkata doctor rape case, celebrated in happiness.
RG Kar Hospital’s former deputy superintendent Dr Akhtar Ali had lodged complaints of financial irregularities on multiple counts at the establishment during Ghosh’s tenure as principal.
Earlier, the Supreme Court, which took suo moto cognisance of the Kolkata doctor rape case, had rapped Sandip Ghosh for passing off the crime as ‘suicide’.
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