New Delhi, September 4
In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in connection with a corruption case.
This is the second major arrest at the hospital since August 9. Earlier, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjoy Roy, was arrested by the Kolkata Police and handed over to the central agency in connection with the medic's alleged rape and murder.
Sandip Ghosh and three others were brought to Alipore Judges Court in connection with RG Kar Medical College and Hospital financial irregularities case after which they were arrested by the CBI. The three others who have been arrested are Ghosh's security guard Afsar Ali (44), and hospital vendors Biplav Singha (52) and Suman Hazara (46) who used to supply material to the hospital.
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.
Just after an hour of Ghosh’s arrest, the CBI officers picked up his security guard and two vendors who used to supply materials to the hospital where the body of a woman medic, was found on August 9.
On August 23, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar hospital from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose who had met union Home Minister Amit shah on August 31 described the arrest of Sandip Ghosh as the 'beginning of the end'.
