Lagatar24 Desk
Kolkata: Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, has filed a plea with the Supreme Court, challenging a Calcutta High Court order that mandated a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into his alleged financial irregularities. The petition is scheduled for hearing on September 6 before a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.
The move comes amid intensified scrutiny of Ghosh following the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College. Ghosh, along with three others, was remanded to CBI custody for eight days by a Kolkata court on Tuesday as part of the ongoing investigation into financial misconduct at the medical institution. The CBI had initially requested a 10-day custody, citing the need to investigate a “large nexus” involved in the corruption case.
“We have just arrested four people. There is a large nexus that needs to be exposed, and hence we are asking for their interrogation. We need their custody to unearth the entire nexus,” the CBI stated during a hearing at the Alipore Judges Court.
Ghosh, who was taken into custody by the CBI on Monday night, faced an assault while being produced in court on Tuesday. The CBI has charged him under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) and Section 420 (cheating and dishonesty), as well as under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Since August 16, the CBI has been interrogating Ghosh in connection with the trainee doctor’s alleged rape and murder and the financial irregularities alleged during his tenure at RG Kar Medical College.
In response to the ongoing investigation, the state health department issued an order on Tuesday placing Ghosh under suspension. The order stated, “In view of the ongoing criminal investigation against Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Ghosh is placed under suspension under rule 7(1c) of West Bengal Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules 1971 with immediate effect.”
