Sandip Ghosh, Ex Principal Of RG Kar Hospital, Suspended Under People's Pressure

Kolkata: Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Hospital, has been suspended by the West Bengal government amid investigation in the Kolkata rape-murder case.

The West Bengal government in an official communication said, “in view of the ongoing criminal investigation against professor Dr. Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, is placed under suspension under rule 7(1c) of West Bengal services (classification, control and appeal) rules, 1971 with immediate effect.”

A while ago, Sandip Ghosh, who has been sent to 8-day CBI custody in the RG Kar Hospital financial irregularities case, was attacked outside a court in Kolkata.

Sandip Ghosh Arrested In Financial Irregularities Case By CBI

The CBI on Monday arrested former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and three others in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at the facility, which is under intense scrutiny over alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor there last month.

Officials said 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.

Monday was the 15th day of Ghosh's questioning by the agency. From the agency's Salt Lake office, the 53-year-old was taken to the CBI's Nizam Palace office in Kolkata, which houses the agency's anti-corruption wing, and was arrested. 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.

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).

The direction came in response to a petition by former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, who prayed for a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into multiple counts of alleged financial misconduct at the state-run institute during Gosh'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.

With inputs from PTI