Kolkata: ED Raids Residence Of Former Principal Of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh’s Close Aide In PMLA Case

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday raided the place of dwelling of former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh’s close aide. The Enforcement Directorate had already registered a case of PMLA world wide the financial irregularities case. Ghosh is at present world wide the custody of CBI.

Sandip Ghosh and three were arrested in reference to the alleged financial irregularities on the facility, which is under intense scrutiny over alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor there last month. The probe agency had arrested Ghosh’s security guard Afsar Ali (forty four), and clinic vendors Biplav Singha (52) and Suman Hazara (forty six) who used to produce material to the clinic.

On August 23, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar clinic from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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The direction came in keeping with a petition by former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, who prayed for a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into greater than one counts of alleged financial misconduct on the state-run institute for the duration of Gosh’s tenure as its principal.

Ghosh served as principal of RG Kar Medical College from February 2021 to September 2023. He became transferred from RG Kar in October that year but inexplicably returned to that position within a month. He held his position on the clinic till the day the clinic doctor became found dead.

Ali had moved the High Court amid speculations on whether the alleged rampant corruption on the institution became in any way connected to the RG Kar medic’s death, with the victim being aware about these misconduct and threatening exposure.

Ali had also alleged that his complaints earlier than the state vigilance commission and anti-corruption bureau filed over a year ago against Ghosh now now not handiest yielded little result, but as well as resulted in his own transfer from the institution.

( With PTI Inputs)