Former RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh Moves Supreme Court Against CBI Probe Into Corruption Case

Kolkata: Amid growing scrutiny over corruption in educational institutions, former Principal of RG Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh, has filed a petition within the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court decision that ordered the CBI probe into the graft case against him. His plea has been listed on September 6 earlier than a bench led by Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud.

The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr Sandip Ghosh on September 2.

Dr Ghosh became under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and medical institution, following a directive from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter. He became sent to eight-day police custody on Tuesday.

FIR Against Sandip Ghosh

On August 24, following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, an official FIR became registered by the CBI against Ghosh on the alleged corruption case. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) of Kolkata also suspended the membership of former Sandip Ghosh amid a CBI probe into the corruption case.

Earlier on August 26, the CBI also concluded a 2d round of polygraph tests on Dr Ghosh as section of their investigation into the rape-murder of a lady doctor at the institution.

The Calcutta High Court has granted the CBI three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, which is to be presented on September 17. The trainee doctor became found dead within the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Sanatorium in Kolkata on August 9.

CBI Arrests ex-RG Kar Sanatorium Principal Sandip Ghosh

The CBI on Monday arrested former RG Kar Medical College and Sanatorium principal Sandip Ghosh and three others in reference to the alleged financial irregularities at the ability, 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 medical institution vendors Biplav Singha (fifty two) and Suman Hazara (forty six) who used to give subject material to the medical institution.

Monday became the 15th day of Ghosh’s questioning by the agency. From the agency’s Salt Lake place of job, the 53-year-old became taken to the CBI’s Nizam Palace place of job in Kolkata, which houses the agency’s anti-corruption wing, and became arrested. It really is the 2d major arrest at the medical institution since August 9.

Earlier, a Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjoy Roy, became arrested by the Kolkata Police and handed over to the central agency in reference to the medic’s alleged rape and murder.

(With inputs from agencies)