Sandip Ghosh resigned from his submit two days after the traiiee physician was discovered murdered.
New Delhi:
Sandip Ghosh, the previous principal of RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in Kolkata, has been within the eye of an enormous storm since a trainee physician’s physique was discovered within the premises of the establishment that he headed. Spelling extra troubles for him, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – which is probing the case – has filed a case of monetary irregularities on the medical faculty in the course of the tenure of Mr Ghosh.
The CBI took over the probe from a state-constituted Particular Investigation (SIT) after instructions by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom. The order was issued on a petition by former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital Akhtar Ali, who requested a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged monetary misconduct on the establishment.
Mr Ghosh resigned because the principal of the RG Kar Medical Faculty simply two days after the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee physician’s physique was discovered inside a seminar corridor on August 9. Nevertheless, he was instantly appointed because the principal of Calcutta Nationwide Medical Faculty and Hospital, a West Bengal authorities determination that was met with protests by college students and difficult questions by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
The court docket ordered him to go on “lengthy go away”, questioning his reappointment inside 12 hours. “How did he step down after which be rewarded with one other accountability?”
On August 20, the Kolkata Police registered a corruption case in opposition to Mr Ghosh after the West Bengal authorities by Mamata Banerjee shaped an SIT to probe the allegations of monetary misconduct on the state-run hospital since 2021.
The SIT handed over all the mandatory paperwork to the CBI immediately which re-registered the First Info Report.
Mr Ghosh had been questioned for almost 88 hours by the CBI which is able to conduct a polygraph check on him immediately. The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Friday gave its go-ahead to the CBI for the polygraph check On Mr Ghosh and 5 others together with the primary accused, Sanjay Roy.
The CBI has been given a deadline of three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, which is to be introduced on September 17.
The physician’s rape and homicide throughout her 36-hour responsibility has reignited issues over the protection of ladies at their workplaces with junior medical doctors taking to the streets, demanding stricter legal guidelines in opposition to violence in opposition to medical doctors.
