Kolkata: Sandip Ghosh, the tainted former principal of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where a woman trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered on August 9, is now eyeing more trouble after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday lodged a case over alleged financial irregularities during his tenure.
The action comes on the orders of the Calcutta High Court which transferred the probe to the agency from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT). It also coincides with the day the central agency began conducting lie-detector tests on the main accused Sanjay Roy and six others named in the rape and murder case that has triggered nationwide outrage and protests.
#WATCH | Kolkata: CBI officers and CBI lawyer submitted an FIR copy before the Chief Judicial magistrate in Alipore Court regarding Corruption case against RG Kar Medical College ex-principal Sandip Ghosh after yesterday Calcutta High Court single bench ordered. pic.twitter.com/7lSkpldL2H
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The polygraph test for Sanjay Roy, the primary accused, is being conducted at the prison where he is detained. Meanwhile, the other six individuals, including former principal Sandip Ghosh, four doctors who were on duty the night of the incident, and a civic volunteer, are undergoing the test at the agency’s office in Kolkata.
Ghosh arrived at the CBI office in the CGO Complex, Salt Lake, on Saturday morning for the ninth consecutive day, after which he was taken for the polygraph test, according to officials.
Among those undergoing the lie detection test are two first-year postgraduate trainees, whose fingerprints were allegedly found in the seminar hall of the state-run medical facility where the doctor’s body was discovered, an official stated.
PTI reported that a team of polygraph specialists from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Delhi has flown to Kolkata to conduct the tests.
On Thursday, the CBI informed the Supreme Court that the local police attempted to cover up the alleged rape and murder of the postgraduate doctor, as the crime scene had been tampered with by the time the federal agency took over the investigation. The body of the trainee doctor, bearing severe injury marks, was found in a seminar hall of the hospital’s chest department on the morning of August 9. Roy was arrested the next day.
The CBI obtained the necessary documents from the SIT on Saturday and proceeded to re-register the FIR. This action follows a directive from the high court in response to a petition by Akhtar Ali, the former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who requested an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into alleged financial misconduct at the college during Ghosh’s tenure.
The high court has instructed the CBI to submit a progress report on the investigation within three weeks, with a follow-up hearing scheduled for September 17 to review the findings.
