New Delhi: In a startling revelation, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that the wife of Sandip Ghosh, former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, had two immovable properties without the proper approval of the West Bengal government.
The agency gave out details about the raids carried out by ED’s Kolkata unit on September 6 at seven locations, including the house of Ghosh and his close aides with regard to financial irregularities case.
The ED had launched an investigation on the basis of an FIR by the CBI, ACB, Kolkata under different sections of the IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against Sandip Ghosh and other contractors connected to the case.
Ghosh was the principal of RG Kar Medical College where a 31-year-old junior doctor was raped and murdered on August 9. The CBI arrested him on September 2. On Tuesday, he was remanded in judicial custody till September 23.
Ghosh is being probed for his alleged graft and financial anomalies at the college and hospital, after an order from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which had directed the CBI to investigate the rape-murder.
The ED has revealed that Ghosh’s wife Dr Sangeeta Ghosh had purchased two immovable properties without any proper permission from state government authorities.
The ED said that in 2021, a post facto nod was given to Sangeeta Ghosh to buy the property by her husband Sandip Ghosh. Sandip Ghosh was posted as Principal of RG Kar Medical College and his wife was posted there as an assistant professor during this period, the ED pointed out.
What did the ED recover during raids
During the raids, the ED said it recovered documents related to properties, including three flats in Kolkata, a flat in Murshidabad and two houses in Kolkata that were acquired by Sandip Ghosh and his wife Sangeeta, and papers related to a farmhouse that the couple owned.
A number of other incriminating documents and digital devices belonging to Sandip Ghosh were confiscated during the raids, the ED said. These papers related to properties were confiscated based on the prima facie suspicion that those possessions were purchased out of Proceeds of Crime, the agency pointed out.