Former principal of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh was suspended by the West Bengal health department on Tuesday, a day after the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested him for alleged financial misconduct.
Ghosh was suspended 26 days after the body of an on-duty woman medic, who was allegedly raped and murdered, was found inside the seminar hall of the state-run RG Kar Hospital on August 9.
“In view of the ongoing criminal investigation against Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, he is placed under suspension... with immediate effect,” an order said.
The Calcutta High Court on August 23 ordered the transfer of a probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the CBI.
The direction came in response to a petition by former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, who alleged financial misconduct at the hospital during Ghosh’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 inexplicably returned to that position within a month. He held his position at the hospital till the day the hospital doctor was found dead.
Besides Ghosh, the CBI on Monday arrested three others in the same case. They are his security guard and two vendors who used to supply materials to the hospital. All four have been remanded to CBI custody for 8 days.
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